Hungarian Detectives Seize Priceless Paintings
- 19 Jun 2012 9:01 AM
Heves county detectives have found paintings that appear to be works by Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt, André Derain, Lajos Gulácsy and Adolf Hitler in Budapest and Szeged. Heves county police criminal affairs director János Asztalos told reporters that forensic experts will decide whether the paintings are forgeries or originals, adding that in the latter case the paintings would be priceless.
So far six people have been questioned as witnesses.
Asztalos said the police learned that stolen paintings were to be exchanged in an office on Táltos utca in Budapest’s 12th District on June 15.
It was then that the Klimt and Picasso paintings were seized. The trail led to Szeged, where four more paintings were discovered, two apparently signed by Gulácsy, one by Derain and a landscape by Adolf Hitler from 1914.
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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