De Pisis painting stolen from Monza in 1975 found

The painting “Landscape - Vie di Parigi” by Filippo De Pisis has been found by carabinieri from the Nucleo Tutela Patrimonio Culturale in Monza more than four decades after it was stolen. It was Dec. 18, 1975, when the work was stolen from an antiquarian in Ferrara. Carabinieri returned the loot to the owner’s heirs after a series of investigations that began in 2015.

During a check in the studio of a Milanese restorer, who was preparing it on behalf of a Lombard auction house, carabinieri photographed the painting, compared it with an image recorded in the database, and traced it back to the theft.
The restorer, however, was not responsible for the theft. In fact, Major Francesco Provenza, commander of the carabinieri, explained, “That canvas has had too many passages over the past decades, and the purchases we traced are regular.” In addition to “Vie di Parigi,” the Ferrara antiquarian had at the time reported the disappearance of two other works: “Venetian Landscape,” also by De Pisis, and “Three cuts on a white background” by Lucio Fontana.

De Pisis painting stolen from Monza in 1975 found

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