Struggle: From the History of the American People, was identified in a Manhattan flat. The 30 panels from the series were sold off individually, against Lawrence’s wishes, in the late 1950s and early ’60s, with the whereabouts of five of the paintings subsequently lost. Remarkably, the discovery in Manhattan was the second in as many weeks. Last October, a visitor to ‘Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art – an exhibition that reunited part of the series – realised that panel 16 was hanging on the wall of his neighbours, who had bought it at a charity auction some 60 years previously.