We find the stolen painting by Jan Bruegel, Claude Monet and Alfred Sisleya
ARTinvestment.RU   06 июня 2008

In Marseille, June 4, were found four paintings stolen in August 2007 from the Museum of Fine Arts named Jules Shere in Nice

These are the two pictures painted by Jan Bruegel - «Allegory of Water» and «Allegory of the earth», as well as paintings by Alfred Sisleya «Topolinaya алея in Moret» and the work of Claude Monet «Rocks in Deppa». The value of the masterpieces of estimated 1 million euro.

Police arrested about 10 people allegedly involved in the crime.

Remember that the theft occurred on Aug. 5, 2007 in the middle of the day. In the museum, five armed men burst in wearing masks. Gunpoint, they forced staff to lie on the ground. In the gallery during the raid were six visitors and several staff members. The perpetrators removed the five paintings on the walls, but one of the works Sisleya was too great, and they just threw it on the floor, breaking the frame. Taking the other four work robbers fled - two on a motorcycle and three in the car.

In the museum building was not cameras, but its representatives doubt that they would have helped prevent crime, and believe that no cameras would not be able to prevent evil if the criminals have changed their appearance and cut the electrical wires . It really was unnecessary to hire guards.

is noteworthy that these paintings of Monet and Sisleya already Kral in 1998. Guilty of the crime was then curator of the museum. Specially hired them to people staged robbery, «taking the curator hostage» and «forcing him to give the work». The paintings were found in the boat, moored in the harbor of Nice. Hapless curator spent 18 months in prison.

picture Sisleya to steal in 1978, when the Nice museum borrowed it for an exhibition in Marseilles. Masterpiece found in the reservoir, five days after the theft.

The Museum of Fine Arts in Nice has a large collection of art of the past four centuries. «Backbone» collection are works by Impressionist and post. The museum can also see the sculpture of Auguste Rodin and Pablo Picasso's ceramics.

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