By Lucila Sigal and Juan Carlos Bustamante

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentina officials said on Wednesday they had recovered a painting stolen decades ago by the Nazis following days of international intrigue and raids to track down the portrait after it was spotted in a real estate photo.

An official for the local prosecutor’s office in the coastal city of Mar del Plata said Argentina’s federal prosecutor would soon reveal more details about the painting’s recovery.

The painting, a portrait of Contessa Colleoni by Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, is featured on a database of works of art stolen by the Nazis and has been missing for 80 years.

Argentine authorities raided a house in Mar del Plata last week after the painting was shown hanging on a wall in a photo on a real estate listi

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