Valuable paintings found in loft
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Five stolen paintings worth about Â£250,000 are found by a pensioner in his loft.
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Stolen Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet works worth $160m (Â£82m) may have been found, Swiss media report.
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One of the word&#39;s greatest collections  of historical letters, including a note written by Napoleon to  his lover Josephine, has been found in a filing cabinet tucked  away in a Swiss laundry room.
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Masterpieces are going mobile at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.
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A 17th century Dutch painting valued at more than $1 million was stolen from an Australian state gallery during viewing hours over the weekend, and police suspect an inside job, officials said Thursday.
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Thieves in Brazil steal two paintings said to be worth $100m (Â£50m), including a work by Pablo Picasso.
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PARIS, Feb. 19 -- Two masterworks that were stolen from a Zurich art museum last week were found in good condition Monday in an unlocked car parked outside a nearby psychiatric hospital, Swiss police said Tuesday. Two other paintings are still missing, they said.
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Swiss police have found two of the four oil paintings by 19th Century masters, which were stolen from a Zurich museum earlier this month in one of Europe's biggest art thefts, they said on Tuesday.
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A series of paintings, by controversial artist Jack Vettriano, are sold at auction for more than Â£1m.
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A crew takes down a painting by the late Avard Fairbanks that had been hanging in a truck garage at the University of Utah for 28 years. The painting can now be seen at the Old Granite Church at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon.  (c) 2007 Deseret News (Salt Lake City).
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A priceless painting stolen more than a year ago from a private collection has been found on the wall of a Bulgarian gypsy's flat.
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An Andy Warhol painting that a man tried to consign to Christieâs auction house turned out to be listed as stolen.
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Two paintings by Pablo Picasso worth nearly five million Swiss francs (4.5 million dollars, 3.1 million euros) have been stolen from a museum in eastern Switzerland, police sources said on Friday.
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State police in Brazil have recovered two paintings, above, including a Picasso valued at $50 million, that were stolen last month in a predawn break-in at the SÃ£o Paulo Museum of Art, Reuters reported. The museumâs president, Julio Neves, said Picassoâs âPortrait of Suzanne Blochâ and the Brazilian artist Candido Portinariâs âCoffee Worker,â valued at $5 million, were in perfect condition when found at a house on the cityâs outskirts. The police arrested one suspect, Francisco Laerton Lopes de Lima, on Dec. 27, and his capture led them to Robson de Jesus Jordao, who was arrested on Tuesday. Police Chief Mauricio Freire said the two men had long criminal records, including participation in previous robbery attempts at the museum. Mr. Neves said both paintings would be on view in their previous locations when the museum opens on Friday.
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Scientific testing of recently-found paintings supposedly by Jackson Pollock has cast doubt on their authenticity.
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Art experts are certain that a picture discovered in the warehouse of Berlin's Gealdegalerie is of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart painted a year before he died.
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Paintings by such luminary artists as Gauguin, Matisse and Monet will be auctioned next week by the city's top two auction houses, Christie's and Sotheby's, in separate impressionist and modern art sales.