3 Stolen Masterpieces Recovered; 8 Arrested
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Police burst into apartments in Rome and Turin before dawn and recovered two paintings by Vincent Van Gogh and one by Paul Cezanne, resolving an art robbery that had become a major embarrassment for Italy. They arrested eight Italians, including a security guard at Rome’s National Gallery of Modern Art, where gunmen walked away with the masterpieces in May. Van Gogh’s “The Gardener” and “L’Arlesienne,” and Cezanne’s “Le Cabanon de Jourdan,” an unfinished painting, were recovered.
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