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Monet Returns: The celebrated painting by Claude Monet that lent its name to the Impressionist movement was back on display Tuesday at the Paris museum from which it was stolen in a daring holdup more than five years ago. “Impression, Soleil Levant” (“Impression, Sunrise”) suffered no damage “except that of being shut up in a cubbyhole for five years,” said the curator of the Marmottan Museum. The picture--painted in 1873 and showing a rising red disk of sun over the French port of Le Havre--was recovered Dec. 5 by French police in Porto Vecchio, Corsica. Officials said they probably will never know who ordered the theft.

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