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Article: [pounds sterling]2m paintings stolen; Van Gogh, Picasso and Gauguin go missing from gallery.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- April 28, 2003
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Byline: ANDREW LOUDON
PAINTINGS by Van Gogh, Picasso and Gauguin - together worth up to pound sterling 2million - have been stolen from one of the country's leading galleries.
Staff discovered the theft as they prepared to open the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester at lunchtime yesterday.
The watercolours are Vincent Van Gogh's The Fortifications of Paris with Houses, painted in 1878, Pablo Picasso's Poverty (1903) and Paul Gauguin's Tahitian Landscape (1893), which is clearly stamped with the artist's initials in the bottom left-hand corner. Daily Mail art critic Robin Simon last night estimated the Van Gogh to be worth pound ...