"Waterlilies" Claude Monet
"Venus" has repeatedly ruined its owners. And the first "victim" was a merchant of Madrid.
As soon as the man has hung the painting on the wall of his rich house, the problems in the business have begun to fall on him one after the other, then ships with assets were sunk and attacked by pirates. Colossal losses forced the trader to sell all his property, in particular "Venus with the mirror".
As soon as the new owner of the painting, another trader and a lover of painting, he paid for the acquisition, lightning struck the warehouse with the goods. The fire destroyed everything and forced the man to put "Venus" at auction.
Three days after the painting was bought by a great pawnbroker, his new master was stabbed in his house by thieves.
The ugly fame of the "Venus" has begun to circulate in Madrid. The usurer's heirs could not get rid of the damn masterpiece: nobody wanted to buy it. In the end they donated the picture to the museum. But even here the adventures of Venus are not over. Once they tried to steal it. Another time a museum visitor, suffering from a mental disorder,he damaged the canvas with a knife.
"Venus with the mirror"
by Diego Velázquez
The water lilies of the French Impressionist Claude Monet they are really dangerous because they cause fire, this is not a legend. The painting "sets fire" to different houses and museums. The first victim was the painter himself: immediately after finishing the work on the painting, Monet's atelier took fire for unexplained reasons. Lilies did not suffer.
Later, the painting was acquired by a famous Montmartre cabaret and a few weeks later a fire broke out. The painting was no longer damaged, and its new owner was the collector French Otto Schmidz. A year later, a fire broke out in his house and, despite the efforts of the owners, only one wall survived.
The one on which the lilies of Monet hung The painting was considered damned and passed from private collections at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Shortly thereafter, in 1958, a fire broke out in the museum. One of the museum's employees died in the fire.