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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.

http://lenta.ru/world/2000/09/20/monet/




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.

http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/01/13/monet/

Beach Purvile, 1882:

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Saratov museum returned the stolen 30 years ago curiosities

28/01/201020: 09

SARATOV, January 28 - RIA Novosti, Alexander Light. FSB officers and criminal investigation police department of the Saratov Region on Thursday returned the Saratov State Art Museum named after Alexander Radishchev two rare book editions of the XIX century, which were stolen from the museum for nearly thirty years ago, told RIA Novosti agency spokesman Tatiana Breus.

"The rapid development of the FSB was 42-year-old resident of Saratov, which, according to some sources, was searching for a buyer for the book Dalmatov" Russian embroidery and Stasova "Russian folk ornament" in 1889 and 1871 editions, respectively, "- said Breus.

According to authorities, these books, among others, were stolen from the library fund an art museum in the 70 years of the last century. Some items stolen from the museum did not return, because the kidnappers managed to sell them, among them were two of these books.

"There was a real danger that the books, the sale could fall into the hands of foreign collectors, and then it's cultural heritage would be lost forever to our state," - said the agency interlocutor.

She added that the FSB had discussions with the citizen who wanted to sell the artefacts belonging to the state, and saved him from committing a crime under article 164 of the Criminal Code (theft of items of value), whereby the punishment as imprisonment for a term of six to ten years. Then a man voluntarily surrendered value, and counter-intelligence officers and police returned them to the museum.

http://www.rian.ru/culture/20100128/206726711.html

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and that is a real outrage
http://infox.ru/accident/crime/2010/...i_Korovi.phtml

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The painting, which may well belong to the hand of the famous artist Konstantin Korovin, fell prey to drug addicts on Thursday in the west of the capital was attacked by robbers on the 68-year-old car restorer and took the canvas with a spare tire from the trunk.
According to the "MK" ATS chief operations officer of the district Kuntsevo Sergei Solovyov, thieves tracked down the car specialist in the restoration of masterpieces in the guerrilla street. Two assailants jumped into an old saloon, Ford Focus, when the restorer braked at a traffic light. The robbers had behaved poorly and apparently were similar to drug addicts. One of the villains put a gun to the driver's neck, while his accomplice chained hand men with plastic clamps to the steering wheel. Then they disembowelled trunk in search of something more or less valuable. Swag was a spare wheel and parcel with the cloth. As later told the police restorer, landscape unframed in a terrible state before he transferred to the restoration client. The lady who lives in St. Petersburg, came upon a picture, going through trash in the attic of a country house, which was inherited from his recently deceased mother. Suspecting that the find may represent a considerable value, the heiress had decided to restore it.

In the police believe that criminals are looking for in the car primarily spare tire and at the same time picked up a sheet. Mugged Restorer alleges that the oil painting size 45 to 55 cm with a strained one side edge is a landscape of central Russia and may be the work of renowned artist Konstantin Korovin. If so, even in such a fabric is not less than 20 thousand dollars, and after the restoration of the price will increase many times.

Possible photo pictures taken from MC
http://www.mk.ru/incident/article/20...grabiteli.html

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Сообщение от Eugene

As later told the police restorer

Spread restorer lady - the heiress.

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Сообщение от Tandem

threw restorer lady - heiress.

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