The picture Degas stolen from a museum in Marseilles
PARIS, December 31. From the museum's Cantina in the center of Marseilles stolen painting by the famous French impressionist painter Edgar Degas worth about 30 million euros. According to reports received here, the museum staff discovered the theft on December 31, pass "Vesti".
This painting was a collection of about 20 paintings of the great impressionist, who exhibited in the museum Cantina in the exhibition "From the story to the painting." It started on 6 October and was completed on January 3.
According to reports from police sources, the investigation of the case leads the brigade anti-gang Marseilles criminal police.
Recall, in 2008 from the Zurich museum gunmen stole paintings by Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet worth more than $ 91 million (100 million Swiss francs). The crime occurred in eight districts of Zurich, where there is a famous private museum Emile Burlet, with an extensive collection of Impressionists. Swiss industrialist Emil Georg Bührle (1890-1956) in the XX century has collected one of the largest collections of European painting.
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