The painting of Paul Klee "Portrait in the Garden", was stolen in 1989 from the New York gallery Marlborough, was found owner Montreal Galleries, Robert Landau

Painting Paul Klee (Paul Klee) «Portrait in the Garden" (1930), stolen in 1989 from a New York gallery Marlborough, was found owner Montreal Galleries, Robert Landau (Robert Landau) and transferred to Immigration and Customs U.S. police (Immigration & Customs Enforcement, ICE).

In December 2009, to Landau asked some art dealer from Florida, who offered him to buy Klee painting. Gallery owner replied that he could not immediately determine its authenticity. The dealer sent the painting to Montreal in the hope that Landau will buy it, when I realized that it is genuine. However, the gallery owner found out that the work stolen and passed it on to agents of ICE.

police sent a "Portrait in the Garden" agency Art Loss Register, a database which contains information about 350 thousands of stolen works of art . Executive Director of that organization, Christopher Marinello (Christopher Marinello) praised the action Landau: "I wish that all the dealers may do and perform the search before you buy anything».

representative picture Marlborough Janis Gardner Cecil (Janis Gardner Cecil) said that the painting, which costs 100 thousand dollars, now owned by the insurer Gallery Lloyd's of London, which will put it up for sale.

Asked that put forward a prosecution against the dealer trying to sell the work of Klee, the representative of ICE Pat Reilly (Pat Reilly) said that the investigation of this case still in progress.

material prepared Ekaterina Guseva , AI

Sources: artdaily.com , artinvestment.ru