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5 stolen Golden Age paintings returned to Dutch museum
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The recovered painting Seascape at Scheveningen by Vincent Van Gogh, is shown during a press conference in Naples, Italy, Friday, Sept. 30 2016. This painting and another one, Congregation Leaving The Reformed Church of Nuenen, which had been stolen in an Amsterdam museum in 2002, were recovered by Naples investigators among the assets of a Camorra group. (ANSA via AP/Ciro Fusco)
F
ive Dutch Golden Age paintings that were among a trove of artstolen from a Dutch museum more than a decade ago have been returned after being recovered in Ukraine earlier this year.
Now the Westfries Museum in the northern town of Hoorn is crowd-funding to pay to restore the paintings, which were badly damaged during or after the January 2005 burglary in which they were snatched.
Museum Director Ad Geerdink said Friday that the recovered paintings "have suffered incredibly."
(Read also: Van Gogh paintings stolen in 2002 found in Italian farmhouse)
Four of the paintings were recovered by Ukrainian officials. The museum says the fifth was handed to the Dutch embassy in Kiev in May by a person who had bought it in good faith.
Another 19 paintings and 70 pieces of silver remain missing.
