From The BBC: Valuable 350-year-old oil paintings found in 'skip' ('dumpster' for us Yanks)

[abqtommy]

This is very interesting and informative, especially when I had to search out just what a 'skip' is.

From article: 'German police have issued an appeal for information after two valuable 17th Century paintings were discovered dumped in a road-side skip.

The oil paintings are believed to be by Dutch artist Samuel van Hoogstraten and Italian Pietro Bellotti, police said.

A man found the paintings at a motorway service station on the A7 south of Würzburg in Bavaria last month.

He handed them in to police in the city of Cologne. No one has yet claimed the artworks.'

More text and photos at link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57536940

[Sneederbunk]

1. The Ernie Kovacs painting is priceless.

[abqtommy]

2. Thanks, I hadn't made that connection. But then everybody looks like somebody.

[murielm99]

4. That is a very creepy painting.

[murielm99]

3. You didn't know what a skip was?

You are not reading enough British murder fiction.

[abqtommy]

5. No, I didn't know, in spite of reading a great deal of P.G. Wodehouse, Terry Pratchett and

Maeve Binchy. But I know now.

[haele]

6. Someone pissed at the outcome of grandpa's will? A bad breakup?

To toss paintings like that into a skip of dumpster suggests a level of grudge or vengeance that doesn't care about monetary gain anymore.

Or it's a bumbling thief who couldn't find a buyer for expensive paintings, which to me would seem odd in Europe.

Haele