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Confusion Grows Over Stolen Van Gogh Painting
Aug 22nd 2010 – 7:24AM
Khaled Desouki, AFP / Getty Images
(Aug. 22) -- The investigation into how a Van Gogh painting was snatched from a Cairo museum has turned into a farce worthy of fictional French detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau. News of the painting's theft -- known as both the "Poppy Flowers" and "Vase With Flowers" -- broke Saturday when Egypt's minister of culture...
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Poppy Flowers (also known as Vase and Flowers and Vase with Viscaria) is a painting by Vincent van Gogh with an estimated value of $50 million to $55 million; it was stolen from Cairo's Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil Museum in August 2010 and is still yet to be found.
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