Scottish police found a stolen 15 years ago, the picture

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Scottish police have been able to find three paintings stolen from a museum in Glasgow 15 years ago, the newspaper The Guardian. A new police inquiry had been successful, was held at the insistence of the gallery staff Kelvingrouv who discovered one of the paintings in the auction catalog for the sale of art objects.

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As a result of subsequent operations police managed to restore the chain of buyers and sellers landscape brush Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, as well as to enter the current owners of two other paintings - the Scottish and Italian masters.
Investigators have reason to believe that the disappearance of three paintings worth a total of 200,000 pounds had something to do with the disappearance of other paintings from museums in the city of Glasgow in 1990.
Then, as a result of our audit found that the blade disappeared and were sold on the black market almost on a regular basis.
Scottish museum workers thanked the police for the return of paintings and his colleagues from the other galleries for their assistance in the return of stolen property. http://lenta.ru/news/2011/01/20/past/
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       U.S. back French painting by Edgar Degas' laundress, suffering from a toothache, "stolen 40 years ago , informs television channel CNN. The ceremony will be held on January 21 paintings in the French embassy in Washington.

       As previously reported, Degas painting was discovered at an auction at Sotheby's in October 2010. "Washerwoman" were stolen from the museum named after Andre Malraux in Le Havre in 1973, but the auction house knew about it, because the picture was not included in the lists of stolen art objects.

       The owner of the picture - a French collector Ronald Grelsamer - claims to have received it as a gift from his father. According to U.S. authorities, Grelsamer is going to demand compensation for the picture.

       In France, the painting "The washerwoman who suffer from toothache" is considered a national treasure. Degas painted it in the early 1870's. Estimated cost of cloth is about 400,000 dollarov. /lenta.ru