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13.10.2016 NAPLES. Naples police found two paintings by Vincent van Gogh that were stolen from the artist’s museum in Amsterdam (The Van Gogh Museum) fourteen years ago. According to the representative of the museum, their curator has already examined the work at the request of the Italian authorities and came to the unequivocal conclusion that they are real.
12.10.2016 GENT. Eight of the twenty-four panels of the famous Ghent Altar or the “Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, Van Eyck” altar after many years returned home, to St. Gavan’s Cathedral in Ghent.
05.10.2016 MOSCOW. Collector of icons Mikhail Abramov sponsored the return to Russia of a valuable 17th-century icon stolen in 1995 from a church in the Yaroslavl Region and recently discovered in a gallery in Venice.
03.10.2016 SWONSI. A 17th-century Flemish masterpiece worth about £ 3 million was discovered in the storerooms of the Swansea Museum.
30.09.2016 KOLN. Cologne authorities said they would hand over a drawing of Adolph von Menzel, bought by art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt in 1939, to the woman who sold it before escaping from Nazi Germany.
25.09.2016 HAGUE. Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh may have suffered from bipolar disorder and had a borderline personality.
23.09.2016 AMSTERDAM. Until recently, only twelve paintings of the seventeenth-century artist Hercules Segers were known (Hercules Segers, 1589 / 90-1633 / 40).
21.09.2016 OXFORD. Four paintings from a series of five sensory organs, one of which was re-acquired only last year, will be presented together for the first time at the exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford.
19.09.2016 NEW YORK. The famous Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin appealed to the New York State Supreme Court with a lawsuit against art dealer Mary Boone. The court documents say that in 2010, Boone deceived Baldwin and sold him the wrong picture.
14.09.2016 NORFOLK. Like all teenagers, 14-year-old Kieron Williamson likes to kick the ball with his friends after school on the field in his village of Ladem, in Norfolk (East of England). But outside the football field, it is very different from peers. A few years ago, reporters nicknamed Kiron Williamson "Mini-Monet."
10.09.2016 BRUSSELS. A painting bought through a used-goods website was identified as the work of Dutch abstract artist Willem de Kooning, lost many years ago. The portrait of the child was purchased by a Belgian couple for 450 euros (about 390 pounds) last year. Now its value is estimated at 50,000 pounds.
