Two paintings, one of Salvador Dali and other Tamara de Lempicka, which had been stolen in 2009 in a museum in northern Holland, were found, said Wednesday specializing in art detective, Arthur Brand.
This is the picture of the Catalan surrealist painter Salvador Dali entitled “Adolescence” of 1941 and the work “music” by Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka, 1929, Brand said in his Twitter account, where he attached two pictures.
Both paintings were stolen on May 1, 2009, in broad daylight by masked men who entered the Scheringa museum of realist art in Spanbroek (north).
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at that time, several men broke with their heads covered in the museum and threatened employees and visitors with a gun before stealing the two works and flee in a vehicle in a matter of minutes, he said at that time the police.
Both pictures fell into the hands of a criminal gang, that have accepted as currency. It was the same band that made contact with the detective through an intermediary, he explained the researcher to Dutch newspaper De Telegraf
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” the organization did not want to be guilty of the destruction or resale of works of art ” , said Brand, adding that the stolen often canvases are used as collateral in transactions between bands.
the detective handed the paintings in good condition, a researcher at Scotland Yard, contact the owner . legitimate -of works of unknown-identity, who had lent the museum
(AFP)
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