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« Mp3s: Santana, Seattle '72 - music to work by | Main | Extreme houseboats, and other, extremely beautiful ones » February 20, 2008Stolen Van Gogh found behind Swiss psychiatric hospitalIt's not often you get to write a headline like that.
Is there something twisted about the thieves "returning" a Van Gogh to the parking lot of a mental hospital? AP reports that officials refuse to address whether a ransom was paid. A Degas and a Cezanne are still missing. BBC has good-sized images of all four stolen paintings., although they seem to have the Van Gogh title wrong. ( BBC Stolen paintings found in Zurich) calls the stolen painting Chestnut in Bloom, but the Emil Bührle collection of French Impressionists -- from which it was robbed -- displays the painting as Blossoming Chestnut Branches, Here's the collection indexed by painter. This particular work was painted Auvers-sur-Oise in the last two months of Van Gogh's life, when he was producing a painting a day. You can see his output, indexed by year, at the Van Gogh Gallery. The drop site is a shrine to psychiatry. Carl Jung treated patients and taught at that University hospital from 1905-1913. One of his students was Hermann Rorschach, of inkblot fame. Both earned medical degrees there. · AP: Two of 4 paintings stolen in Zurich heist are recovered Posted by Sheila Lennon |
my passport photo blogging since 2002 garden blogs archived headlines  Sheila Lennon is features & interactive producer of projo.com, the Web site of The Providence (R.I.) Journal Rhode Island |
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