Poppies near Vetheuil among Stolen Paintings

A trio of thieves made off with art from E.G. Buehrle Museum in Zurich, Switzerland. The four stolen paintings are Cézanne’s The Boy in Red Waistcoat, Van Gogh’s Blooming Chestnut Branches, Monet’s Poppy Field Near Vetheuil and Degas’s Viscount Ludovic Lepic and His Daughter. The four paintings are the most valuable of the collection and the museum estimates the total value to be $160 million. My mother was a big fan of the Impressionists and art in general. We had a calico cat that she names Picasso and she used to keep a drawing pad nearby. She was a student…

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