Lost...and Found! (Partly)

Remember that entry I posted a few days ago about those four paintings getting stolen from that museum in Zurich? (You can view it here, http://parkerginn.blogspot.com/2008/02/wow-its-sad-day-for-world-of-art.html)

Well, they found two of the paintings! Claude Monet's Poppy Field at Vetheuil, and Van Gogh's, Blooming Chesnut Branches, worth $64 million combined, were found in that back of a car just a couple hundred yards from the museum. The paintings were in perfect condition, thank goodness. The museum director and art experts have said that the robbery was done by people with no knowledge of art, the robbers probably took advantage of the low security museum without the knowledge of how hard it is to sell well known works. The Monet and Van Gogh paintings were likely abandoned because they were the largest of the stolen paintings, and were too bulky to be carried easily. Two other paintings remain missing. The most valuable is Cezanne's, Boy in the Red Waistcoat, worth $91 million. The other missing painting is Degas' Ludovic Lepic and his Daughter, worth $9 million. Hopefully the police will find them soon. Here's the link to the news article. (And I've figured out how to post links so that they'll pop up when you click on them, instead of you having to copy and paste it)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080219/ap_on_re_eu/switzerland_art_robbery;_ylt=Avcf9Oz_GvUxLhKmOXRSqCR0bBAF