Thursday, February 21, 2008

Monet and Van Gogh paintings recovered among several recently stolen from a Zurich museum

Recently a group of four armed men succeeded in making off with four highly valued paintings including Monet's Les Coquelicots près de Vétheuil and Van Gogh's Branche de marronnier en fleurs, both of which were recovered after police received a call from a psychiatric hospital worker who found the paintings in the back seat of a car parked in the parking lot.

Degas' Comte Lepic et ses filles, and Cézanne's Le Garçon au gilet rouge are both still missing. The four paintings together value about 112 millions euros.


Read more about the theft and recovery of these paintings:
Le Monde: Deux des quatre tableaux de maître volés à Zurich ont été retrouvés