Two Impressionist paintings stolen in Switzerland have been recovered from an abandoned car outside Zurich University's psychiatric clinic, according to police.
Claude Monet's Poppies Near Vetheuiland Vincent Van Gogh's Blossoming Chestnut Brancheswere found late yesterday by a parking attendant who saw them inside a white Opel Omega car during a patrol.
The combined value of the two works is about 70 million Swiss francs, police said.
The two other paintings taken from the E.G. Buehrle Collection - one by Edgar Degas and the other by Paul Cezanne - are still missing.
The building holding the collection of E. G. Buehrle, in Zurich, where the robbery took place
Thieves with handguns stole four paintings by 19th-century masters worth €112 million from the Zurich museum in Switzerland's biggest art theft, police said today.
Oil paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet were taken in the daylight robbery from the private Buehrle Collection in what was the second art theft in the area within days.
Police said a reward of 100,000 Swiss francs (almost €62,500) was on offer for information leading to their arrest.
The four paintings stolen were Cezanne 's The Boy in the Red Vestfrom 1890, Degas's Viscount Lepic and His Daughtersfrom 1871, Monet's Poppies Near Vetheuilfrom 1880 and Van Gogh's Blossoming Chestnut Branchesfrom 1890.
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