Recovered art

Claude Monet’s Beach in Pourville recovered in Poland

Poznań and Olkusz, Poland · Source report date:

Claude Monet, Beach in Pourville. Image published by Polish police.
Claude Monet, Beach in Pourville. Image published by Polish police. Image source ↗
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Polish police announced the recovery on 12 January 2010 of Claude Monet’s Beach in Pourville. The painting had been stolen from Poznań’s National Museum in 2000 and replaced with a copy. A suspect was arrested; this report does not establish a conviction.

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Rembrandt, Self-Portrait (1630), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

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