As stated by the mother of one of those arrested in the robbery Museum Kunsthal in Rotterdam, she burned the pictures to destroy the evidence against her son. Among the stolen works were works by Matisse, Gauguin, Monet, Picasso and Freud Lusiena

place where hung a painting by Henri Matisse
Picture taken in the Rotterdam Kunsthal museum on the day after the robbery. October 2012
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paintings by Matisse, Gauguin, Monet, Picasso and Freud Lusiena stolen from the Museum Kunsthal in Rotterdam last fall , may have been burned. This was stated by the mother of one of those arrested in the robbery. Olga Dogaru, mother of Romanian Radu Dogaru, who is considered the leader of a gang of kidnappers, the police said that when her son and two his associates in January of this year, was arrested , she first hid the suitcase with family pictures in an abandoned house and then buried him in the cemetery of the village Karakliu, and when the village began searches, she burned all seven stolen works in a furnace to destroy the evidence against the son.

Robbery in the Kunsthal in Rotterdam happened on the night of 15 to 16 October 2012 around 3:00 am, burglar alarm is activated, but the police did not have time to arrive at the scene of the crime. With the temporary exhibition, which included works from the collection of the Dutch investor Willem cords, were abducted seven pieces: "Self Portrait" in 1890 by the Dutch artist brush Meyer de Hahn (Meyer de Haan); painting "Girl at the open window" (1898) by Paul Gauguin , two works by Claude Monet in 1901 - "Waterloo Bridge, London" and "Charing Cross Bridge, London", "Reading girl in yellow and white" (1919), works by Henri Matisse, "Head of a Harlequin" (1971) by Pablo Picasso, as well as portrait of "Woman with eyes closed" (2002) painted Lusiena Freud. Now the police have to make an examination of the ashes of the furnace Olga Dogaru, and only then we can say for sure whether the pictures were burned. Research can take several months. Estimate of the total cost of the seven paintings in different sources vary - from a few dozen to a few hundred million dollars.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Sources : huffingtonpost.com , artinvestment.ru