Two of Four Stolen Masterpieces Recovered in Zurich

ZURICH—Two of the four masterpieces stolen from a private villa housing the E.G. Buehrle Collection in Zurich in a brazen heist last week were found Monday in an unlocked car parked outside a nearby psychiatric hospital, the Washington Post reports. A parking attendant called police to report a "suspicious white vehicle with two pictures on the back seat" at the University of Zurich Psychiatric Hospital, and police found Vincent van Gogh's Blossoming Chestnut Branches (1890) and Claude Monet's Poppy Field at Vetheuil (1879) inside. The two paintings are worth about $64 million together. Edgar Degas's Ludovic Lepic and His Daughter (1871) and Paul Cezanne's Boy in the Red Waistcoat (1888) are still missing. "We don't know if the other two paintings are still in the country," Zurich police spokesman Michael Wirz said. "The only thing I can tell you is that the robbers were not stopped, and we are still looking for them."

The museum had offered a $91,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of the works.