A video shows the pieces of art stolen by the most wanted Spanish National Police
Madrid. – A video of the National Police broadcast in Internet images of stolen works of art most wanted. Among these works are some signed by artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Van Gogh, Cezanne and Sorolla.
- ’Storm on the Sea of Galilee’, by Rembrandt
Some of these works of art have disappeared over twenty years and could reach the black market an exorbitant price. The search is carried out by specialized agents Heritage Brigade, attached to the Central UDEV the Commissioner General of the Judicial Police.
The oil painting Auvers Sur Oise by Paul Cézanne is valued at 4.8 million euros. This painting was stolen in January 2000 in the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford (United Kingdom). It also does more than ten years stolen from the Gardner Museum in Boston ten masterpieces valued at 250 million, including Storm on the Sea of Galilee, a painting by Rembrandt in 1663. Also appear among the pieces most wanted Le Pigeon aux petits pois by Pablo Picasso, and Pastoral by Matisse, both stolen, along with three other paintings, in the Museum of Modern Art in Paris in May this year. Experts are also trying to trace the whereabouts of two works by Van Gogh: Brooms and Red Poppies, stolen in Giza (Egypt) and View of the Sea at Scheveningen, stolen in December 2002 Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
The officers also seek a painting by Sorolla, El Santero of the Brotherhood stolen this year in the Benlliure Museum of Valencia and a work of Toulouse Lautrec, Lady with a Hat, stolen in Italy. But the specialists who have the database of stolen works of art called Dulcinea, some works have been looking for over 20 years, which were stolen from the Royal Palace in Madrid in August 1989: Unknown Lady and Hand, both of Velázquez, San Carlos Borromeo by Bayeau and Portrait of a Lady by Juan Carreño de Miranda.
More than 8,000 paintings, sculptures, carvings, architectural or archaeological items are recorded in the computer file Dulcinea, a pioneer in Spain. Historical Heritage Brigade National Police was awarded the Gold Medal of Fine Arts in 2007.
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