| A valuable stolen painting has found on a beach. | | | | forgot to take the painting with them". Ironically |
| According to a news story published in a Monaco | | | | enough the painting, by the English artist Geoff Bunn |
| newspaper a valuable stolen painting has been found | | | | and worth an estimated quarter of a million dollars, is |
| beneath a sun lounger on a mediterranean beach. The | | | | entitled 'A sunlit room' and features a pair of empty |
| painting which went missing from a private collection | | | | chairs in the sunshine of an otherwise empty room. |
| near Zurich in Autumn 2009 was found rolled up, | | | | The painting was believed to have been sold to a |
| removed from it's frame and stretcher, lying beneath | | | | private collector in Switzerland by a Parisian gallery in |
| a sun lounger by a beach cleaner who worked for | | | | 2008 but it went missing, along with a handful of |
| the local council. Talking about the strange discovery | | | | other works during a burglary near Zurich in late |
| a spokesperson for the local police force said "We | | | | autumn last year (2009). Only a handful of the other |
| can only assume that the thief must have stopped | | | | paintings which were stolen at the same time have |
| off at the sun lounger for a rest in the sun. | | | | been recovered since the theft so it might be worth |
| Presumably placing the picture underneath the lounger | | | | looking under your deckchair or sun lounger if you |
| whilst there. When he or she left the beach, they | | | | find yourself in the same vicinity this easter... |
