Cezanne Theft In Australia – Really?

An art collector in New South Wales claims that “$67 million worth of art, including a previously unheralded painting by the French impressionist Paul Cezanne, worth $50 million, were stolen from his studio in the tiny town of Limpinwood. “Reports of the theft and in particular the Cezanne, supposedly painted in 1873 and titled Cezanne’s Son in a High Chair, were greeted with scepticism in the higher echelons of the Australian art world. The art historian and publisher Lou Klepac described it as like ‘finding a crocodile in the Antarctic’.”