Stolen Csontváry Painting Recovered In Budapest
- 2 May 2012 9:04 AM
Police have found four of five paintings stolen from a Buda home on March 15, including a rare work by Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry. The painting, Szerelmesek Találkozása (“Lovers Meeting”) is the most valuable Hungarian painting ever sold in Hungary, changing hands for Ft 230 million in 2006.
Police announced on Monday that they had detained two people after finding the painting walled into a flat in the Eighth District.
They also recovered two works by László Mednyánszky. A fourth painting, by Pál Merse Szinyei, valued at Ft 70 million, was found in a house on Lajtha László utca in the 20th District.
Detectives are searching for the fifth stolen canvas, a work by Béla Kádár.
All five artworks were taken from a home on Orom utca in the First District.
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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