'We weren't meant to own it forever': how Tom Roberts's lost masterpiece was found

The story of the recovery of Rejection, a painting by one of Australia’s most treasured artists, has drama, sadness and redemption all of its ownJoe Natoli is an obsessive art collector. A fossicker and a finder, he trawled the internet into the small hours looking for that one valuable painting that everyone else had missed. With limited funds, he had learned to identify works that were more important than an auction house realised. “When you have an addiction, you have to find a wa