In the United States found the stolen paintings by Chagall

Of the stolen 6 years ago-collections found the Los Angeles police. Among the findings - canvas legendary designers Marc Chagall, Diego Rivera.

According to reliable information the Los Angeles Times, in a joint operation of the police Department and the Federal Bureau of investigation United States were identified 9 paintings from 12, among them paintings by Marc Chagall, Diego Rivera. Painting was found in a hotel room in West Los Angeles. Agents posing as buyers went on a 45-year-old Raul Espinosa, who wanted to implement a cloth over 700 thousand dollars. The specialists consider discovered the masterpieces of 10 million dollars.

Espinoza was charged with complaints of selling stolen property. But he is not guilty, claiming that he had purchased works of art from 3 persons At the moment he is placed under arrest. The theft happened at the beginning of August 2008 from a private home in the prestigious residential area of the town of Encino in California. Search another 3 stolen paintings continue.

Such a scenario has happened in the United States this summer. Then the American police were able to find in Miami canvas legendary painter Henri Matisse's "odalisque in red pants", stolen in 2002 in Venezuela. After the discovery of the power of the United States returned the painting to the Museum of contemporary art in Caracas. The Museum of modern art of Latin American powers got the picture back in 1981 in one of the private galleries in new York. Then the cloth was estimated at 480 thousand dollars, currently at the pinnacle of the Fauvist art wish would have already put 10-12 million dollars.

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