Resident of Ireland's County Wicklow accidentally discovered in a ditch by the road paintings by John Lavery, Jack B. Yeats and Paul Henry, stolen in the fall of 2014 from a private house in the same County

Irishman Denis Russell Denis Russell) was cutting a live fence in his country house in the village Dunlavin, in the County of Wicklow, when his eyes fell on a strange black bag in a roadside ditch. At first he took it for the garbage, thrown from a passing car. Imagine his surprise when in the bag he found four paintings. In one of them he learned the work of artist and landscape painter Paul Henry (Paul Henry). Russell was amazed by the discovery. Home he remembered that these pictures not so long ago flashed in the local news: in October 2014 they were stolen from a private house in the village Source), also in County Wicklow. Russell called policiy@

Among the works that have been found — "Landscape with house" Paul Henry, a painting by the famous Irish artist Jack Butler Yeats (Jack B. Yeats), "portrait of a lady" painting by John Lavery (John Lavery), and unknown portrait, in which, apparently, is depicted Irish poet and writer Samuel Becket@

On the first impression Dennis Russell, paintings were not badly damaged. Only one of them cracked frame, but it's easy to restore it, says the Irishman. The painting was taken to the police for fingerprinting. An investigation into the theft continues. While no one arestovali@

Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: irishmirror.ie, independent.ie, artinvestment.ru