Paul Cezanne stolen in 2008 returned to Zurich, Switzerland

It’s been four years since four Serbs carried out the audacious theft of a Cezanne, Monet, Degas and Van Gogh. The $130 million Cezanne has finally found its way back to Switzerland, Serbian police report.

“The Boy in the Red Vest” by prominent French impressionist Paul Cezanne was discovered in Belgrade on April 12 after local police arrested four people on suspicion of robbing the Zurich-based E. G. Buhrle Collection in February 2008.

The alleged robbers stole four paintings from the museum in one of the biggest art thefts in Europe.

Two of the stolen artworks, Claude Monet’s “Poppy field at Vetheuil” and Vincent van Gogh’s “Blooming Chestnut Branches” were discovered shortly after the robbery. Edgar Degas’s “Ludovic Lepic and his Daughter”, was recovered in 2009. The Cezanne’s location remained unknown.

Police arrested the suspected thieves as they were trying to sell the painting to a Serbian buyer.

According to the Serbian Interior Ministry the picture was returned to Switzerland on Monday aboard a special flight.