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from the Poznan Museum in Poland have stolen the only painting of Monet

From the National Museum of Poznan in Poland have stolen the only painting Monet - Beach at Purvile. It became known on Wednesday, reports the AP.
Museum workers noticed damage to the canvas. It turned out that Monet simply cut from the frame, and in its place inserted a copy.

How much time the museum visitors admired the forgery, believing that considering the great artist's brush painting impressionist - not yet known.

Stolen painting is estimated at one million dollars, the Polish police spokesman Andrzej Borowiak. All border crossings were immediately alerted to a possible attempt to export picture for the country's borders.

Claude Monet (1840-1926) wrote several of the Norman city Purvilya. Channel coast - one of his favorite subjects.

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in Poland found the stolen Monet painting

In the Polish city Olkusz found painting Claude Monet's "Beach in Purvile" stolen in 2000, Polskie Radio reports. 41-year-old man, whose house was kept painting, arrested, his name was not called.
Painting "Beach Purvile" was stolen from a museum in Poznan, September 19, 2000. Hall, in which she was exposed, poorly protected, and that the canvas was not even protected by a special showcase. Once you get to the museum, the thieves cut canvas from its frame and replaced it with a copy.

Cost of fabric - the only work of Monet in Polish museums - from three to seven million dollars. At the time of theft, notes the Associated Press, the canvas was estimated at one million dollars.

Claude Monet wrote "The Beach at Purvile" in 1882; picture is one of a series of landscapes made by the artist in this Normandy town.

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Beach Purvile, 1882: