A beloved prop from the british comedy series “Allo ‘Allo’ is the Saturday has been sold for the 15,000-pound, equivalent to 126 000 Danish kroner. It writes the BBC.
the Painting, which translated into English is called ‘The fallen madonna with the big babser’, in the series attempted stolen by the nazis during the Second world War. The series takes place in Nouvion in northern France, in which the painting of the topless madonna is considered to be a local art treasures.
In a way, facing the painting home, then it is a local man from the northern French city, which has punget out to get hold of rekvisitten, tells an auctioneer from East Bristol Auction House Andy Stowe to the BBC.
– I am overwhelmed by the great interest.
– And 15,000 pounds for a tv prop is just amazing, he says.
It is the fictional artist van Klomp’, as in “Allo ‘Allo’ is behind the brush strokes. The picture depicts a topless woman in red clothes with set up hair and a mountain landscape in the background.
the Picture was sold back in 2007, when a private person put the 4000 pound – about 33.500 dkk – for the topless madonna.
the BBC series was recorded from 1982 to 1992. It was published and was rebroadcast several times on both DR1 and TV2.
