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It's been 10 years since Monet’s ‘Beach in Pourville’ was on public view. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Recovered Monet goes back on view in Poland

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf

It's been 10 years since Monet’s ‘Beach in Pourville’ was on public view. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
It’s been 10 years since Monet’s ‘Beach in Pourville’ was on public view. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) – A Polish museum director says a Claude Monet painting stolen from his museum 10 years ago and finally recovered earlier this year is going back on public view.

Wojciech Suchocki, director of the National Museum in Poznan, said that, starting Sunday, vistors are again able to view the French impressionist painter’s Beach in Pourville.

The work dates to 1882 and depicts a sea lapping against a beach in pastel blues and greens. It was stolen in 2000 by a thief who cut the painting from its frame.

The thief left fingerprints at the scene, however. He was arrested in January and is now serving a three-year prison sentence.

Suchocki said that the painting required painstaking conservation work.

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