Tip leads to stolen artwork
Three stolen paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Paul Gauguin may have been recovered near the art gallery where the theft occurred, police said Monday.
Acting on an anonymous tip, officers discovered three paintings rolled in a tube near a public toilet close to Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, northern England.
Greater Manchester Police said the artworks were taken to the gallery for safekeeping and examination by an expert.
A major investigation was launched after staff noticed the paintings were missing shortly before the gallery was due to open on Sunday. The works, with an estimated total value of $1.6 million, were identified as Van Gogh’s “The Fortifications of Paris With Houses,” painted in 1878; Picasso’s “Poverty,” painted in 1903; and Gauguin’s “Tahitian Landscape,” painted between 1891 and 1893.
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