Six years after seven paintings by famous artists were stolen from the museum in Rotterdam, the Romanian writer Mira Fetika, who wrote a book about it, received an anonymous letter. It said that one of the stolen paintings, "The Head of the Harlequin" Pablo Picasso, hidden under a stone in the forest of Romania. Fetics lives in the Netherlands and immediately contacted the local police, but received no response. Then she went in search of a picture with her friend, journalist Frank Westerman.

"I was told to walk 450 meters along the path and find marks on the tree. There was a red mark on the second tree nearby.. There, under the stone, we found a picture wrapped in cellophane, under a layer of earth. I cried when I saw her, ”said Fetika..

She and Westerman came to Bucharest with the picture they had found and asked for help from the Embassy of the Netherlands to hand the painting to the Romanian authorities.. Experts were skeptical of the discovery, noting that strokes and strokes are not similar to the style of Picasso.

Their assumptions were confirmed: Fetika said that she was played by Belgian directors Bart Bal and Yves Degrise in the framework of the True Copy project, which is dedicated to the artist Gert Jan Jansen. Jansen managed to forge more than one and a half thousand famous paintings, including Pablo Picasso's brushes, until he was detained in 1994. The theater company Berlin, the founders of which are directors, has posted a brief information about the project on its website..

In 2012, malefactors kidnapped seven paintings from Kyunsthal in Rotterdam from a large-scale exhibition dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the museum.. The abductors carried away, in particular, the paintings of Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Paul Gauguin. The thieves managed to escape, but soon they were detained.. In 2013, three Romanians were arrested for abduction. During the investigation, the mother of one of them, Radu Dogaru, said that she burned all the paintings in the oven to protect her son.. She later gave up her testimony, although the remains of the canvases were indeed found in the Dogaru furnace..

Recall that in November, a couple of gallery owners were detained in Finland, which for several years sold paintings of the self-taught artist, posing as works by Henri Matisse, Fernand Leger, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Wassily Kandinsky, and also paintings by Russian artists of the XIX century.