7 pictures that you'll never see
 

«I put my suitcase with seven paintings to the furnace with wood, slippers and other footwear and waited until everyone is safely burn».

October 16, 2012 from the Art Museum Kunsthal (Rotterdam, Netherlands) were abducted by seven of the most valuable paintings. Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Lucian Freud, Meyer de Hahn.
July 16, 2013, Interfax reported recognition in court the mother of one of the six suspects in the theft, who decided to destroy the evidence. Masterpieces of Impressionism were burned to the ground.

This story is worthy of a Hollywood script. After the pictures were already in the hands of robbers, one of them, Radu Dogaru, handed them to her mother's custody. That first hid the suitcase with the paintings in an abandoned house and then buried him in the local cemetery. A month later, when in the village began searches, she was terrified for the fate of his son, dug a suitcase and destroyed evidence. The great legacy of Impressionism era were burned in the oven with wood, slippers and other utensils. The whole world until recently was hoping that she gives false testimony to protect his son from prison. But the experts found in the same ash particles of paint and canvas, and metal and copper nails, some of which were made before the start of the XX century.

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As long as there is hope that it is not 7, and 3.


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I really hope that the play is played ... and burning pictures of props. (Let the nails are made until the beginning of the 20th century.) The game is worth it.

It is hardly possible , alas. Romanian semi-literate farmer has burnt a suitcase with the painting (by the way , what the f -sized oven there , if there suitcase got) that my son was hurt - not stolen , so, do not steal . And now I got to court , apparently, she was told that she has done and what awaits her , and she's trying to defend himself.

It is not clear yet when she lied - at the beginning or now . And then, and both are very likely. But I want to believe that not all the paintings are destroyed.

Is this still true?

I'm afraid so.

Unfortunately ... Apparently , these works will join the sad list of stolen and irretrievably lost art . Until now , the sad top 10 looked like this ( first) :

10) Barbara Hepuort - two forms . Estimated cost - 900 thousand dollars

Sculpture stolen in 2011 from Dulwich Park (London) . The search produced no results are likely lost forever.

9) Franz Van Miris Sr. - Cavalier.
Cost $ 1 million

Disappeared in 2007 from the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia).
Most likely abducted by one of the visitors.

8) Auguste Renoir - Madeleine with flowers in her hair. Cost $ 1 million

September 8, 2011 a gunman burst into a rich house to the west of Houston , Texas , and threatening with a pistol and demanded money put on the table and jewelry. The frightened landlord found the strength only to have to point to a picture hanging on the wall and call it the approximate cost .

7) Stradivari violin , the approximate cost of $ 3 million

Kidnapped in 1995. Violin belonged to the famous Austrian violinist Erica Morini . The woman, who by that time had passed for 90 years, was in the hospital in serious condition. Since the sign of forced entry into the apartment was found , police believe that the responsibility for the theft , most likely lies with the person I went into the family violinist .

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6) Henry Moore - Reclining Figure . 4.6 million dollars.

Henry Moore sculpture stolen from him by three unknown estates in 2005 . Sculpture in minutes lifted onto a truck with a winch - right under the CCTV cameras . After several years of fruitless searching the police came to the conclusion that the "Reclining Figure" was melted .

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5 ) Paul Cezanne - "View of Auvers- sur -Oise ." The estimated cost of $ 5 million

Painting was stolen from the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford in 1999 . While the entire country is launched fireworks , drank champagne and counted the seconds before the turn of the millennium , a thief sneaked unnoticed into the hall , where they were presented Impressionist paintings , and took one of the most valuable .

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4) Caravaggio's "Nativity with Saints Francis and Lawrence ," $ 20 million

Disappeared from the chapel of San Lorenzo in Palermo in 1969. The main suspects in the theft were considered representatives of the Sicilian Mafia , but intelligence agencies for a long time could not find any customers or performers nor the painting .
In 2009 Gaspare Spatutstsa killer in court said that the painting was kept in a shed on the family farm Pullara . Mafiosi not feel the need to take care of the web, and it gnawed rats and pigs. Realizing that the damaged canvas will not be able to sell , it was burned .