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Two paintings by Vincent Van Gogh were recovered by anti-Mafia police in Naples last week, nearly 14 years after they were stolen from a museum in Amsterdam. Footage from the Italian Guardia di Finanza shows the discovery of the paintings after they were hidden in one of the houses of an international drug trafficker in Castellammare di Stabia, near Naples during a sting operation targeting organised crime. In 2002, the paintings were stolen from the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, after thieves used a ladder and sledgehammer to break into the building. The works were valued at €89 million, or about $100 million, at the time. The masterpieces - View of the Sea at Scheveningen (1882) and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuene (1884) - were painted early in the artists's career.
Italian police have recovered two paintings by artist Vincent Van Gogh that were stolen from an Amsterdam museum 14 years ago. Linda So reports.
Amsterdam, Oct 7 (EFE) .- (Camera: Imane Rachidi) For Vincent van Gogh, "The Potato Eaters" (1885) was his masterpiece with a realistic message, and he prepared it with dedication, but his brother Theo believed that it was full of mistakes and no one would take it seriously in the Paris art market, so he let it dust on his mantelpiece.FOOTAGE FROM THE EXHIBITION PRESENTED AT THE VAN GOGH MUSEUM IN AMSTERDAM. IT INCLUDES STATEMENTS TO EFE DE BREGJE GERRITSE, CURATOR OF THE EXHIBITION.1. He was not looking for technical perfection with his painting, but the message he wanted to convey about peasant life, about the crude honesty of hard life in the countryside. For him, the painting was a success, and although he did not use the term ‘masterpiece’, he considered it similar to the Sunflowers, his Room or La Berceuse.2. His brother Theo was not very impressed, and received harsh criticism from his friend and painter Anthon van Rappard. But Van Gogh continued to believe in his work, for him the message transmitted was more important than the mistakes he had made in painting.3. In 1887, he wrote to his sister Guillermina: "This is my best work." That is very interesting because by then he had already gone to Paris, he had changed his working methods and his style, using more bright colors, but he still had the dark painting of Nuenen in mind.4. If even your best friend and painter Van Rappard was very enthusiastic about the work, no one would have been in Paris. It was just a very dark image, a very difficult subject, it was not a very attractive painting, especially because of all the modern art developments that were happening in Paris that he was still unaware of at the time.
A never-before-seen Vincent Van Gogh drawing of an exhausted old man is on display at an Amsterdam museum for the first time. "Study for 'Worn Out'", which Van Gogh drew early in his career in 1882, has been hidden away in a Dutch family's private collection for more than a century. IMAGES
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