In Berlin, found the stolen Caravaggio
ARTinvestment.RU   29 июня 2010

It is about the 100 millionth canvas "The Taking of Christ in custody" ("Kiss of Judas"), kidnapped two years ago from a museum in Odessa.

German and Ukrainian guards of the law found stolen two years ago in Odessa, Caravaggio masterpiece . The painting "The Taking of Christ in custody" ("Kiss of Judas") was found in Berlin, where police arrested four suspects - three Ukrainians and one Russian. It is reported that they could be part of an international criminal gang engaged in theft of works of art. Twenty more suspected accomplices were arrested in the Ukraine.

said that criminals were brought to Berlin now to sell it to a German collector. Four bandits were taken during an attempt to convey a masterpiece of the buyer.

«Kiss of Judas", which belongs to the Museum of Western and Oriental art, is the only work of Caravaggio in the Ukrainian public meetings. The cost of this world famous paintings, some experts estimate at 100 million dollars. The work was brought to Odessa in the early twentieth century, has long been considered a copy, the authenticity of the work established in 2005, when it was exhibited in Spain.

likely now kidnapped a man. He entered the museum through a window, cut the canvas from the frame and disappeared. Late last year, the museum's director Vladimir Ostrovsky unexpectedly announced that the loss was offset by Caravaggio, the most valuable discovery: Staff determined that the anonymous Venetian portrait from the collection, with great probability, be a creation of the Titian. If the work really belongs to the brush of a great painter, then the price could reach $ 200 million.

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova, AI

Sources: artinfo.com , artinvestment.ru