Stolen Monet found

15th January 2010

Monet's 'The beach at Pourville' 1882

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A Claude Monet painting worth millions of zloty that disappeared without trace after it was stolen from a Poznan museum has surfaced again following an operation by Polish police.

The work of art, entitled “Beach at Pourville”, was found in the southern town of Okusz neigh-on 10 years after thieves took it from Poznan’s national museum. A 41-year-old man, known only as Robert Z. for reporting reasons, was arrested.

“Investigators from Poznan went to the south of Poland in secrecy—without even informing local the police—and began to watch the man,” said Magdalena Mazur-Prussia, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office in Poznan. “After a few days they arrested him. The su ...

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