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7 pictures that you will never see
"I put my suitcase with seven paintings to the furnace with wood, slippers and other footwear and waited until all safely burn" 16 October 2012 from the Art Museum Kunsthal (Rotterdam, Netherlands) were abducted by seven of the most valuable paintings. Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Lucian Freud, Meyer de Han.
July 16, 2013, Interfax reported on the recognition of the court the mother of one of the six suspects in the theft, decided to destroy the evidence. Impressionist masterpieces were burnt to ashes.
This story is worthy of a Hollywood script. After the pictures were already in the hands of the robbers, one of them, Radu Dogaru, gave them the deposit of its mother. That first hid the suitcase with the paintings in an abandoned house and then buried it in the local cemetery. A month later, when the village began searches, she scared for the fate of his son, he dug a suitcase and destroyed evidence. The great legacy of the era of Impressionism were burned in the oven with firewood, slippers and other utensils. The world had hoped until recently that the woman giving false testimony to protect his son from prison. But the experts found that the ash particles of paint and canvas, as well as metal and copper nails, some of which were made before the beginning of the XX century.
Theft at the Museum of Rotterdam is one of the largest committed over the past few years. The investigation led detectives 25 - the same as in Europe generally are investigating the most brutal murders. The paintings were vynesny from the museum in less than two minutes, half an hour they turned to ashes - in such a short time, the world is irrevocably lost the great heritage of recognized masters of fine arts.
Pablo Picasso's "Harlequin Head", 1971 god
Claude Monet's "Waterloo Bridge, London" 1901 god
Claude Monet's "Charing Cross Bridge, London" 1901 god
Paul Gauguin "The girl in front of an open window" 1898 god
Henri Matisse "Reading Girl in White and Yellow" 1919 god
Lucien Freud's "Woman with eyes closed", 2002 god
Meyer de Han "Self Portrait", 1890 god
See also:
The unknown fate of the world-famous paintings
The most expensive paintings in the world
Painting for Dummies
via www.adme.ru/hudozhniki-i-art-proekty/zhivopis-dlya-chajnikov-415205/
July 16, 2013, Interfax reported on the recognition of the court the mother of one of the six suspects in the theft, decided to destroy the evidence. Impressionist masterpieces were burnt to ashes.
This story is worthy of a Hollywood script. After the pictures were already in the hands of the robbers, one of them, Radu Dogaru, gave them the deposit of its mother. That first hid the suitcase with the paintings in an abandoned house and then buried it in the local cemetery. A month later, when the village began searches, she scared for the fate of his son, he dug a suitcase and destroyed evidence. The great legacy of the era of Impressionism were burned in the oven with firewood, slippers and other utensils. The world had hoped until recently that the woman giving false testimony to protect his son from prison. But the experts found that the ash particles of paint and canvas, as well as metal and copper nails, some of which were made before the beginning of the XX century.
Theft at the Museum of Rotterdam is one of the largest committed over the past few years. The investigation led detectives 25 - the same as in Europe generally are investigating the most brutal murders. The paintings were vynesny from the museum in less than two minutes, half an hour they turned to ashes - in such a short time, the world is irrevocably lost the great heritage of recognized masters of fine arts.
Pablo Picasso's "Harlequin Head", 1971 god
Claude Monet's "Waterloo Bridge, London" 1901 god
Claude Monet's "Charing Cross Bridge, London" 1901 god
Paul Gauguin "The girl in front of an open window" 1898 god
Henri Matisse "Reading Girl in White and Yellow" 1919 god
Lucien Freud's "Woman with eyes closed", 2002 god
Meyer de Han "Self Portrait", 1890 god
See also:
The unknown fate of the world-famous paintings
The most expensive paintings in the world
Painting for Dummies
via www.adme.ru/hudozhniki-i-art-proekty/zhivopis-dlya-chajnikov-415205/
