Works of art lead interesting lives, too
François Flameng’s Fete Nocturne, or “Night Party,” was a gift to the Albany Museum of Art by Maurice Gortatowsky, who inherited it in 1979 from his uncle, Jake Gortatowsky. The late 1800s painting was once owned and displayed by William Randolph Hearst in his San Simeon, Calif., castle.
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