In Scotland, discovered a stolen 15 years ago now Coro
In Scotland, found three of which fifteen years ago, were stolen from museums in the city of Glasgow. Among them - the famous French landscape painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (Jean Baptiste Camille Corot). The total cost of 200 thousand pounds (about 318,000 dollars).
In November last year, chief curator of the Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow Kelvingrouv saw the creation of Coro Directory Edinburgh auction house Lyon and Turnbull . With this information, the police managed to enter the picture. Representatives of the auction house was also informed them that from the same collection entered the work of Scottish postimpressionist Samuel Peploe (Samuel Peploe), which bought the art dealer Ewan Mundy (Ewan Mundy). After some time (probably at home in a mysterious salesman) discovered the third picture, written by masters of the Italian Renaissance by Federico Barocci (Federico Barocci).
in 1990 from a museum in Glasgow, was stolen some number of exhibits, which are then sold on the black market. It is believed that the theft of the above work was part of the crime.
material was prepared by Julia Maksimova, AI
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