Four out of five paintings stolen in South Africa were found in a cemetery
ARTinvestment.RU   16 ноября 2012

Call informant helped to locate the four paintings stolen from the Pretoria Art Museum last Sunday. They were found in a cemetery in Port Elizabeth - a thousand kilometers from Pretoria
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fishing boats. 1931Istochnik: independent.co.uk

call police informant helped South Africa to locate four of works stolen from the Pretoria Art Museum last Sunday . Paintings found in the cemetery of Port Elizabeth - 1100 kilometers from the capital of South Africa.

robbery occurred on November 11 in broad daylight. Robbers, pretending at first the teacher and students art historians, was carried out of the Art Museum Pretoria five works for a total of $ 2 million. At a small church cemetery in Port Elizabeth police officer managed to find work, "Fishing Boats" Irma Stern, "Eland and Bird" JH Pirnifa, "Chief Hottentots" Hugo Naudet and "Cat and petunias" Maggie Lobser. The painting "street scene" Gerard Sekot is still at large. Experts now check, whether found in the cemetery of the copies. But judging from the first cursory examination, this is probably the originals. Cemetery and the surrounding area is now carefully searches by the police. No arrests in connection with a robbery was not done yet. Pretoria Museum remains closed.

Prepared Maria Onuchina, AI

Source: bbc.co.uk , artinvestment.ru



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