内容摘要：On 8 May 1945, people around the world celebrated Germany's surrender, which had been agreed the previous day.

On 8 May 1945, people around the world celebrated Germany's surrender, which had been agreed the previous day.

A re-discovered artist described as a "great" is offering a £50,000 reward in the search for dozens of his missing works.Henry Orlik, 78, from Swindon, has made £1.6m from his surrealist art work in the past year, with all the sales coming from two exhibitions.

While he had work displayed beside the likes of Salvador Dali in the 1970s, Orlik became an artistic recluse some decades ago and is now in poor health.After being evicted from his social housing in London while recovering from a stroke in 2022, his possessions - including a large amount of his work - disappeared, and the search is on to find them.Orlick currently lives in his childhood home in Swindon, where other works had been safely stored.

Family friend Jan Pietruszka said he had been sorting through them, with some items going to the recent exhibitions for sale.He said Orlik remained desperate to find the missing works lost during his eviction and "my brief is find them at all cost".

"He's getting weaker all the time. His health situation is deteriorating. He's quite depressed that we're not making great progress in finding these paintings," he explained.

Mr Pietruszka said his friend struggled to speak much now.Orlik now lives in his late mother's house in the town where he is cared for, but struggles to speak.

Over the years, he had fortunately also stored many pieces there.Mr Pietruska started to go through the mass of art, providing pieces for exhibitions in London and Wiltshire.

"I started unravelling these, so I took them to the Polish community centre here, because they had a large dance floor," he explained."I photographed them all and started recording, numbering them, naming them and then put them into tubes."