Masterpiece left lying on the road
NZPA-Reuter London A Canaletto painting worth about $200,000 fell off the roof rack of a car into a busy London motorway, as it was being taken to the airport to be shipped abroad. A motorist, Mr Lawrence Ayres, who deemed it a traffic hazard, picked it up and took it home to suburban Redhill last Thursday. “It looks like a Canaletto reproduction,” he told his wife. He said he would take it to the police station when he returned from a long week-end staying with relatives. Yesterday, Mrs Ayres heard on the radio that an art gallery director had lost a real Canaletto painting, of St Mark’s Square in Venice, on the motorway. “I aged about 390 years,” she said. “To think that I had been left guarding the real picture. My husband had tossed it on to our six-year-old son’s bed. It is now at the police station.”
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Press, 23 October 1978, Page 7
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