FAMOUS PAINTINGS
STOLEN FROM SPANISH COLLECTOR OTHER TREASURES UNTOUCHED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. MADRID, August 11. (Received August 12, at 1.55 p.m.) Three famous pictures by Vandyke, valued at £40,000, Velasquez’s ‘ Christ Crucified,’ valued at £8,700, and a Titian, valued at £27,000, mysteriously disappeared from the house of Senor Isidor Urzaiz, one of the richest of Spanish collectors. Senor Urzaiz is at present in San Sebastian. The steward, on entering the Madrid residence, found only three discarded picture frames. Other treasures were untouched. There were no signs of a forcible entry.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19326, 12 August 1926, Page 7
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93FAMOUS PAINTINGS Evening Star, Issue 19326, 12 August 1926, Page 7
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