POLICE ARREST 4 FOR STEALING REMBRANDT PAINTINGS
saric...@poetic.com
says...
I heard that some Picasso paintings were found
in Turkey . These paintings were stolen in Kuwait during the
Gulf War , but much more important thing cannot be recognized their
genuine. Our world became to his work `Guernica`, but we still are
denying it .
Happy days ..
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The Picasso Conspiracy
It is a little known fact that the origin of Pablo Picasso's Guernica lies in a
secretive drawing that was executed in 1934 and which re-surfaced in England in
the 1970's.
This previously unknown work contains the widest range of themes of all known
Picasso's and has been signed, dated and fingerprinted by the artist. Yet since
it's discovery, the Picasso museums and the Picasso Administration under the
direction of Claude Picasso have refused access to fingerprinted materials that
could prove it genuine.
A number of well known scholars close to the Picasso Estate have also been
brushing aside or denying the attribution when communicating with the media.
Regardless of what they may say, the drawing's authenticity can be proven one
way or the other, but this may never happen unless Claude Picasso and those
under his influence allow access to fingerprinted items under their control.
>Police arrest 4 for stealing Rembrandt paintings
>
>The Times of India
>
>Stockholm - Police have arrested four men in the theft of
>three Renoir and Rembrandt paintings from Stockholm's
>waterfront National Museum, but the precious art works
>remain missing, authorities said Thursday.
>
>Police superintendent Leif Jennekvist told The Associated
>Press that the four suspects - all Swedish citizens but
>not otherwise identified -were arrested Wednesday night
>and early Thursday in the Stockholm area. He said house
>searches were under way and he would not rule out further
>arrests.
>
>The paintings were taken from the museum December 22. A
>man walked in five minutes before closing time and
>pointed a submachine gun at an unarmed guard while two
>people already inside snatched paintings off the walls.
>
>He also said he believed the paintings were still in
>Sweden.
>
>"We think that we are going to get them back, but we
>cannot say when," he said. He declined to elaborate.
>
>Museum officials reacted to the arrests with cautious
>optimism.
>
>"Naturally we are happy if this means that the case is
>about to be solved, but we don't know how the police
>investigation is being conducted," museum spokesman
>Torsten Gunnarson was quoted as saying by the Swedish
>news agency TT.
>
>The robbers sped away in a boat moored near the museum.
>Police found the boat but not the paintings, which museum
>officials say are worth several million dollars.
>
>Earlier this week, police said they had received several
>photos of the paintings along with a demand for an
>unspecified ransom for their safe return. Police said
>officials would not pay a ransom.
>
>The paintings are:
>
>- A self-portrait by Rembrandt, painted on golden-
>surfaced copper plate to give a special light to the
>face. It was painted in 1630.
>
>- "Conversation," by Renoir, a close-up of a man and a
>woman with her back turned to the viewer.
>
>- "Young Parisian," by Renoir, a painting of a young
>girl.
>
>Like other government property in Sweden, the paintings
>were not insured. The National Museum's collections
>contain about 15,000 paintings and sculptures.
>
>Meanwhile, police said Thursday that a bronze statue of
>movie legend Charlie Chaplin has been stolen from a
>museum in the Swedish city of Uppsala, 65 km north of
>Stockholm.
>
>The 25-centimetre (10-inch) statuette was made in 1942 by
>Swedish artist Bror Hjorth (1894-1968), who is more
>famous for his colourful paintings. The value of the
>statuette was not immediately known.
>
>Police said the statue was probably stolen on Wednesday.
>The museum, founded 10 years after Hjorth's death, is
>located in his old house.
>
>The biggest art theft in Sweden happened at Stockholm's
>Modern Museum in 1993, when works by Picasso and Georges
>Braque worth about 500 million kronor ($53 million) were
>stolen. In 1995, three Swedes were sentenced to prison in
>that theft, and all but one of the works were retrieved.
>Braque's painting "Still Life" remains missing. (AP)
>
>Friday, January 5, 2001
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