Doubts Increase About Missing “Cezanne”

Cezanne experts are voicing more skepticism that a painting stolen last weekend in New South Wales was an authentic Cezanne. “Claiming the work appeared to have been painted in England in the 1920s,” one expert says owner John Opit was “suffering from a case of ‘mythomania’. ‘I think it’s just a case of the myth getting bigger than the man’.”