Things eyed too closely.

I'm reading "A Georgia O’Keeffe painting found hidden in a closet could fetch $3 million" (WaPo). That makes it sound as if something had been forgotten or its value not understood, but no:

This year, the painting’s owner invited her niece to help sort through belongings at her East Village apartment, according to Christie’s. The woman casually told her niece she had an original painting by Georgia O’Keeffe — one of the best-known American modernists — in her front closet, behind dozens of coats. The owner received the painting as a gift from her mother, who bought it from a Manhattan art dealer for $3,800 in 1963, Christie’s said in a statement. The woman displayed the work in her home until the mid-1980s, when she became suspicious that a guest at a bridge game she hosted was “eyeing it a bit too closely,” Christie’s said. She placed it in its original wooden box and left it in the closet until her niece found it.

The woman knew what she had! Spare me the "casually told her niece" and "until her niece found it." That's the niece's point of view. The woman knew it was valuable and deliberately hid it and was able to say exactly where it was. The niece didn't find it, she dug it out from a place that was chosen carefully to protect it and that was never forgotten. I'll bet she quietly enjoyed the niece's emotional journey.