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Poppy Flowers Van Gogh

August 22, 2010 by · Comments Off on Poppy Flowers Van Gogh 

Poppy Flowers Van Gogh, Poppy flowers, a painting by Van Gogh believed to have been made in 1887, has been recovered from the Cairo airport. The painting had only hours earlier been stolen from a museum in the city.

The poppies Van Gogh Painting Worth and 50 million
The painting, known as poppy flowers and vase and flowers, and is reportedly worth 50 million euros. It is “cut from its frame” in the Mahmoud Khalil Museum on Saturday. According to the report, a man and a woman, both Italian nationals, were arrested at the airport trying to leave the country.

It was the second time the painting had been stolen, and from the same museum as well. In 1978 he was taken, but recovered a decade later, in Kuwait.

The poppy flower is about 1 foot by 1 foot in size. Represents yellow and red flowers, and as noted above is believed to have been painted by Vincent Van Gogh in 1887. That was three years before his death from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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