From the museum in the Netherlands made the paintings of Salvador Dali and Tamara de Lempitski
ARTinvestment.RU   05 мая 2009

Cloth Lempitski was bought in 2002 for 2.6 million dollars

On Friday, May 1, in the Dutch town Spanbruk been audacious robbery. Around noon, three or four masked men broke into the local art museum realistic spouses Schering (Scheringa Museum for Realist Art), and threatening the guard gun, stripped from the walls of two works - gouache «Yunost» Salvador Dali (Salvador Dalí) and canvas «Muzykantsha» Tamara de Lempitski (Tamara de Lempicka) . Then they loaded the spoil in the car and fled. «All about everything» criminals took only two minutes.

Dali's work, created in 1941, is a surrealistic landscape, in which one can see a female face. And the picture Lempitski, written in 1929, shows the volume Beauty in a bright blue dress, playing the instrument, resembling mandolin.

Representatives of the museum did not disclose the cost of works. It is, however, that the work of Dali, it was purchased at the Art Fair in Maastricht TEFAF. A canvas Lempitski was bought in May 2002 at an auction Sotheby's. It has brought a record for the artist 2.6 million dollars and was the first of its work, part of the permanent exhibition of the Dutch museum.

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova, AI

Source: cbc.ca , artinvestment.ru