The Forest

In 1947 Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito visited for the first time Romania Its communist regime gave him as present a painting from a great Romanian artist Ion Andeescu The Leafless Forest In the 60s a young art critic Radu Bogdan decided to elaborate a monograph dedicated to the great painter including reproduction of the painting given to Tito After countless problems he obtained the permission to photograph the painting The moment they took the painting off the wall they found a microphone Somebody was spying on Tito