"Beach in Purville" ( French Plage de Pourville ) - a picture of the French artist Claude Monet . It is one of a series of works written by Monet in 1882 in the small coastal resort town of Purville (currently part of the commune of Hautault-sur-Mer ) next to Dieppe in Northern France. In 1906, the canvas was bought by the National Museum in Poznan . This is the only Monet work in Poland available to the general public. In September 2000, the painting was stolen from the museum. January 12, 2010 the painting was found and returned to the museum [1] .
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| Claude Monet | ||
| Beach in Purville . 1882 | ||
| Plage de pourville | ||
| Canvas, oil. 60 × 73 cm | ||
| National Museum , Poznan | ||
| ( Inv. ) | ||
Theft and Return
The painting, estimated at that time at $ 1 million, was stolen from the National Museum in Poznan in September 2000. It was cut out of the frame and replaced with a copy. The loss was discovered on September 19, 2000. For a long time, the police tried to establish the identity of the person who made the sketches of paintings in the museum two days before the discovery of the loss.
January 12, 2010 the picture was found. In the southern Polish city of Olkusz, police arrested a 41-year-old Polish citizen who was the author of a fake, which was established, in particular, by fingerprints [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Stolen Monet painting recovered in Poland // BBC News.
- ↑ Poland's stolen Monet found, suspect arrested // Agence France Presse. Archived January 4, 2013.