They stole two boxes ‘Goya’ valued at 5 million euros in the house of a collector in Madrid – El Pueblo Salto

Published 26/09/2015

E l oil ‘Dream of San Jose’ and drawing ‘cartoon heads’ were in a safe.
Two works attributed to Francisco de Goya (Fuendetodos, 1746-Bordeaux, 1828) were stolen last 1 September of a house in Villanueva de la Cañada, one of the towns with higher incomes in the Community of Madrid and 30 kilometers west From the capital. Thieves broke into the home in the evening, when there was no one inside, and inundated the alarm, according to this newspaper the company Art Recovery Group, which specializes in tracking and recovering stolen works of and plundered art through the use of a large database and a system for detecting images online. Small goyas missing are the dream of San José oil (33.5 by 24 centimeters) and ink drawing cartoon heads (21 by 15 centimeters).
Guilherme Maximino, a spokesman for Art Recovery, dismissed the hypothesis concerned an operation ordered by a collector, eager to have stolen painting and drawing. The thieves probably went to steal money, valuables and jewelry but safe gut ran into the two parts of the Aragonese genius and the works were carried, depending on the version of the firm, with which contacted the owner of the works stolen, who he prefers to remain anonymous.
The theft was reported to the Guardia Civil, Interpol and the police of other countries. Art Recovery agents sent photographs of San Jose and Dream cartoon heads to try to open as soon as possible any line of investigation to the recovery of the two works, in addition to preventing their sale. Civil Guard sources confirmed to this newspaper the theft of two Goyas, but declined to give more information to not interfere with their inquiries.
The company experts indicated to this newspaper that the value of both pieces could reach five million euros. Given the criminal nature of their origin, it is very difficult to sell them on the legal art market.
Dream On San Jose Guilherme Maximino said it is very possible that it a previous study by the Aragonese genius for all of fresh -pintados around 1771-1773 commissioned by Joaquín Cavero Cayetano Ahones and Pueyo de la Sierra (1735-1788), Earl of Sobradiel- that decorated the walls and oratorio roof of this noble palace in Zaragoza, home of the College of Notaries of Aragón.
The website of the Goya Foundation in Aragon says this whole attributed to the artist who was the historian Ricardo del Arco who gave news of the discovery paintings in 1915, pinning these first to Goya. In the 20s of last century, without the reasons it is known, the paintings were torn and past seven canvases by order of Joaquín Cavero Sichar and Alvarez de Toledo, first Earl of Gabarda, whose property had passed the palace.
These paintings were part of an exhibition on Goya organized by the Academy of Fine Arts of San Luis in 1928 at the Museum of Zaragoza. It was the first and last time we were together. Then the tables were deposited in the Provincial Museum of Zaragoza. In 1932 the deposit and all the works except Dream San Jose, who stayed at the gallery for its poor condition, they dispersed and went through successive private hands rose.