The Van Gogh painting that remains missing from an Egyptian museum.
Associated Press
An Egyptian telecommunications magnate has announced he is offering a reward for information leading to the recovery of a van Gogh painting that was stolen from a museum in Giza, while Egyptian authorities said they would improve security measures at all of their museums.
Naguib Sawiris, the billionaire chairman of the wireless network company Orascom Telecom, said he would pay a reward of a million Egyptian pounds (about $175,000) for information on the van Gogh, Reuters reported. The painting, known as “Poppy Flowers” or “Vase and Flowers,” is valued at more than $50 million. The work was stolen Saturday from the Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum, where it hung in a room with only some working cameras and no working alarms.
Read the whole story at The New York Times, by Dave Itzkoff
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