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Thursday, 25 July, 2002, 17:00 GMT 18:00 UK
Stolen Chagall returns to Russia
![]() The work went back on display on Wednesday
A stolen Chagall painting, which was held at ransom by thieves who demanded peace in the Middle East, has been returned to its Russian home.
The $1m (£635,000) painting, Study for Over Vitebsk, was stolen in June 2001 from the Jewish Museum in New York, where it had been on loan. A group calling itself the International Committee for Art and Peace sent a note saying it would not be returned until there was peace in the Middle East.
Its owner, an anonymous St Petersburg collector, requested that it be returned to the city's museum after it was recovered. It has been in the museum's collection since 1992, and was unveiled on its return on Wednesday, 24 July. It was found after the FBI were called when postal staff found it in an undeliverable package at the postal facility in Topeka, Kansas. Bella Meyer, a granddaughter of the Russian artist and a leading authority on his work, examined the 1914 painting. Markings Looking at the painting outside its frame, Meyer found a group of numbers, whose significance is not known, on the back. She recognised these as being in the hand of her grandfather, who often placed such markings on his canvases, the spokeswoman said. The work shows an old man floating above a village carrying a walking stick and beggar's sack. It was a study for a larger, similar piece, called Over Vitebsk, which was also painted in 1914. |
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