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Report: Missing Cezanne worth $109M turns up in Serbia
Ho
/ REUTERS
"The
Boy in the Red Vest," painted circa 1888, by Paul Cezanne
By
Reuters
Police
in Serbia believe they have recovered an Impressionist masterpiece by Paul
Cezanne worth at least $109 million that was stolen at gunpoint in one of the
world's biggest art heists four years ago, a police official said on Thursday.
"We
believe the painting is Cezanne's 'Boy in a Red Waistcoat' and three suspects
were detained in connection with that," the official, who asked not to be
named, told Reuters.
"Experts
in Serbia and abroad are trying to ascertain whether the painting is an
original. This painting is worth tens of millions of euros," the official
added.
The
canvas -- "Boy in a Red Waistcoat" -- was one of four paintings
stolen from a Swiss art gallery in 2008 by a trio of masked robbers who burst
in just before closing time and told staff to lay on the floor while they took
what they wanted.
The
paintings were reportedly worth an estimated $163 million at the time and the
heist was the biggest art theft in Swiss history and one of the largest in the
world. "The Boy in a Red Waistcoat" canvas was worth $110 million
alone at the time.
The
painting was stolen in 2008 from the Emil Georg Buehrle gallery in Zurich, a
private collection founded by a World War II arms dealer and entrepreneur. The
gallery could not be reached for comment on Thursday.
Two of the stolen canvasses, one by Claude Monet and the other by Vincent Van Gogh, were recovered days later abandoned in a car, but the other two -- the Cezanne and a painting by Edgar Degas -- have been missing for the last four years.
Cezanne's
"Boy in a Red Waistcoat" is thought to have been painted around 1888
and depicts a boy in traditional Italian dress donning a red waistcoat, a blue
handkerchief and a blue belt. Three other versions of the painting are in
museums in the United States.
Last
October, the Serbian police recovered two paintings by Pablo Picasso --
"Tete de Cheval (Horse's Head)" and "Verre et Pichet (Glass and
Pitcher)" -- stolen in 2008 from a gallery in the Swiss town of
Pfaeffikon, near Zurich.
The
police official said law enforcement agencies from several countries had
cooperated in the latest investigation that led to the apparent recovery of the
Cezanne masterpiece.
Serbia's
state prosecutor is expected to issue a statement or give a press briefing on
the case later on Thursday.
Cezanne, Matisse masterworks auctioned for $19M each
Stefan
Wermuth / REUTERS
Sotheby's
employees with Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream," which will be
auctioned Wednesday.
By
Chris Michaud , Reuters
The
spring art sales got off to a solid start at Christie's on Tuesday, with works
by Cezanne and Matisse each selling for $19 million as the auction house moved
$117 million worth of Impressionist and modern art.
The
sales continue on Wednesday at Sotheby's, where the star lot is the
once-in-a-lifetime offering of Edvard Munch's seminal work, "The
Scream." Sotheby's has estimated it at about $80 million, but many in the
art world expect it could soar as high as $150 million, given its fame.
Tuesday's
sale, relatively small at about half the size of typical evening sales of
recent years, easily achieved its pre-sale estimate of $90 million to $130
million, with only three of the 31 lots on offer going unsold.
Christie's
officials said they had chosen to assemble a tightly edited sale, focusing on
top-quality works fresh to the market and in mint condition, and the strategy
appeared to have paid off.
"We're
thrilled. It was a great sale, and we had a marvelous sell-through rate,"
the highest for an Impressionist auction since 2006, said Brooke Lampley, head
of Impressionist and modern art at Christie's New York.
The
result, Lampley added, "was very much what we expected" after
Christie's tried to tailor the sale to the realities of the current art market,
which has recovered solidly after falling in the early days of the financial
crisis.
"It's
an extraordinary situation," she said. "The art market hasn't
correlated to other markets. We see a lot more people choosing to put their
money into art."
Cezanne's
"Card Player," a recently rediscovered watercolor study, and
Matisse's vibrant floral composition "Les Pivoines" were the sale's
top lots, each selling for $19,122,500 including commission.
The
Matisse nearly doubled the estimate, while the Cezanne was in the middle of its
$15 million to $20 million estimate. Estimates do not include commission.
Other
highlights included Picasso's "Le Repos," a small portrait of his
sleeping mistress Marie-Therese Walter, which fetched just under $9.9 million
and easily beat the high estimate of $7 million.
Monet's
landscape "Les demoiselles de Giverny" sold for $9.6 million, but
failed to make its low estimate.
Lampley
noted the sale was marked by "particularly strong American bidding."
Roy Lichtenstein’s
“Attendant 5,’’
The auction house is trying its luck again, on May 8th, but this time with lower expectations. It is estimated to fetch $7 million to $10 million.
Reputed Connecticut mobster may have information on biggest art heist in history
By The Associated Press
HARTFORD — A reputed Connecticut mobster suspected of having information related to the largest art theft in history from a Boston museum is facing an arraignment on weapons charges.
Robert Gentile of Manchester is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in federal court in Hartford.
Gentile has been detained since his arrest in February on a charge of selling illegally obtained prescription painkillers.
A prosecutor revealed in court last month that the FBI believes the 75-year-old Gentile “had some involvement in connection with stolen property” related to the unsolved 1990 heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in which masterworks worth a half-billion dollars were stolen.
Gentile’s attorney said he had nothing to do with the art theft and the government was trying to pressure him.
Kinkade $9M in Debt When He Died
Kinkade $9M in Debt When He Died
(NEWSER) – Thomas Kinkade was known as the "Painter of Light," but the last few years of his life seem to have been fairly dark: The Daily reports that Kinkade owed about $9 million to at least 165 creditors when he died. Claims range from the huge ($2.4 million from a decade-old dispute with two former gallery owners, $40,000 in back taxes) to the tiny ($125 owed to a computer and toner supply company) and also include the fairly bizarre ($2,251 to … Arrowhead Mountain spring water?). His bankrupt distribution arm, once worth $145 million, was down to $1.4 million in cash and $6.5 million in assets last April.
A bankruptcy reorganization agreement required Kinkade to continue releasing images, whose proceeds would go to creditors. Now, proceeds from rapidly increasing sales after Kinkade's death will do that instead, and court documents also hint that unreleased work may also exist. The Huffington Post and The Stir recall Kinkade's troubled past few years, including accusations of inappropriate behavior with women and urinating on a Winnie the Pooh statue at Disneyland, allegations of defrauding investors and other business and legal troubles, a separation from his wife, and a DUI. Kinkade had owned up to some poor behavior in 2006, blaming stress for his problems with alcohol and overeating.
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