A priceless painting by Italian
artist Giorgio de Chirico has been stolen from the Béziers
Museum of Art, sources said on Tuesday.
The Composition with Self-Portrait (1926) was taken from the
Musée des Beaux Arts in the southern French city last Thursday,
judicial sources said.
The work had been part of the collection of Resistance hero
Jean Moulin, who was born in Béziers.
Local media said the canvas had been cut out of its frame.
Greek-born de Chirico (1888-1978) founded the 'Scuola
Metafisica' art movement before WWI, which profoundly influenced
the surrealists.
After 1919, he became interested in traditional painting
techniques, and worked in a neoclassical or neo-Baroque style,
while frequently revisiting the metaphysical themes of his
earlier work.
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