Paul Cézanne's painting "The Boy in the Red Vest" worth some 100 million euros was stolen by Serbian citizens
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The Cézanne oil painting seized in Serbia earlier this month is now back in Zurich.
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“The Boy in the Red Vest” by French Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne was among four works stolen from the Bührle collection four years ago.
A spokeswoman for the Zurich Prosecutor’s Office confirmed its return on Tuesday, but declined to tell the Swiss News Agency where the painting was being held at the moment.
It is expected that there will be a press conference presenting the masterpiece on Wednesday. Valued at SFr100 million ($109.6 million), the painting disappeared after a brazen heist in 2008.
Soon after the robbery, Claude Monet’s “Poppy field at Vetheuil” and Vincent van Gogh’s “Blooming Chestnut Branches” were discovered in a car parked at a mental hospital in Zurich.
The other painting still missing is Edgar Degas’s “Ludovic Lepic and his Daughter”, which is worth about SFr10 million.
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Painting is confirmed as stolen Cézanne
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Zurich prosecutors said on Thursday that the Bührle Foundation certified that the painting is Cézanne’s “The Boy in the Red Vest”. The painting was worth SFr100 million ($109.6 million) when it was stolen along with three other works from the private Bührle collection in 2008. Claude Monet’s “Poppy field at Vetheuil” and Vincent van Gogh’s…
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Cézanne’s The Boy in the Red Vest and Degas’ Count Lepic and His Daughters, the most and least valuable of the stolen works, are still missing. Two paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet were found in an abandoned vehicle in a psychiatric clinic’s car park on Monday afternoon, according to local police. The…
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The theft happened on Sunday at the Bührle Collection – a private museum for Impressionist and post-Impressionist art in Zurich. Three masked men who entered the building with pistols are still at large, police said on Monday, describing the heist as a “spectacular art robbery”. “It’s the biggest ever robbery committed in Switzerland and certainly…
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