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Bührle Collection

Theft from E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich

Paul Cezanne, Boy in the Red Vest

Paul Cezanne, Boy in the Red Vest, 1894/95, oil on canvas, 80 cm x 64.5 cm
(high resolution image)

RECOVERED APRIL 12, 2012

Edgar Degas, Count Lepic and His Daughters,
c. 1871, oil on canvas, 65.5 cm x 81 cm
(high resolution image)

RECOVERED 2011

Description

Four masterpieces were stolen in an armed robbery on February 10, 2008 from the E.G. Bührle Collection in Zurich, Switzerland. Two paintings were recovered very quickly. The Cezanne and the Degas were recovered during an extended police operation in Serbia.

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