40 years ago stolen two famous paintings appeared in Italy

The Italian Gendarmerie recently found two paintings that were stolen in London more than 40 years ago. They were the impressions of the impressionist Paul Gauguin's Fruit and Pup on the Table and Napier School Painter Pierre Bonnar's The Woman and the The two sofa chairs have experienced an incredible journey.

General Mariano Morsa, commander of the Italian Military Requiem Command, said that both paintings were stolen in 1970 at a married couple in the city of Max and Kennedy who lived in London. The thief took a train from London to Paris. Then I traveled from Paris to Turin, Italy, but it was possible that when the train arrived in Italy from France, I encountered a sudden situation such as a border check. The thieves abandoned the painting and fled. The two paintings were left on the train. The conductor discovered the painting and handed it to the Lost and Found Office in Turin. After a long absence, he was auctioned along with other items. In 1974, a worker at the Fiat car factory pocketed two paintings for 45,000 liras (less than 30 euros). Now according to the assessment of cultural relics experts, the works of Paul Gauguin in the two paintings are worth between 15 and 30 million euros, while the work of Pierre Bonnar is also worth about 600,000 euros.

Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) was a post-impressionist painter of France, and he was known as Cézanne and Van Gogh. Pierre Bonnar (1867-1947) is one of the most influential representatives of the Nabis camp in France. The Nabis camp was created by the 20th century avant-garde formed after the impact of impressionism and post-impressionism. Art groups. Bonnar has exquisite and acute sensibility for color and has a reputation as a "color magician".

The discovery of the two paintings was purely accidental. The Fiat workers who bought the paintings at the time did not know the value of the two paintings. They bought them home and hung them in the kitchen as decorations. Later, when they retired, the old workers moved back to their old home in Sicily. They also took these two favorite paintings. Go back and continue to hang in the kitchen as a decoration. The old worker’s son was a college student who studied architecture. When he accidentally looked through an art book, he felt that a Gao Geng’s work was very similar to the style of oil painting hung in the kitchen, and he immediately asked some local experts. Those experts decided to communicate the information to the gendarmerie for cultural heritage protection. The gendarmes of cultural relics began investigations on the authenticity and history of paintings last summer.

At present, the Italian police have determined that the old workers had no knowledge of the value of the two works and ruled out buying suspicions. Now these two famous paintings have been transferred to the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage. According to General Mosa, the commander of the Gendarmerie Command, the original masters of these two famous paintings have died and they have not been found to have inheritors. The Italian side has issued a circular to the relevant British authorities to verify whether anyone owns the legal ownership of the two famous paintings. How to deal with the two rare masterpieces still needs to wait for further news.