According to CNN, citing news from the Vittoriale degli Italiani estate, the organizer of the exhibition, Italian sculptor Umberto Mastroianni (Umberto Mastroianni) was featured in an exhibition near Lake Garda, Italy, on Wednesday evening. ) were stolen.
Forty-nine works of art worth €1.2 million (more than $1.3 million) were reportedly stolen from an exhibition called “Like Warm, Liquid Gold,” which opened in late December and is set to close on Friday.
A heritage spokesman told CNN that one of the works, titled “Uomo/Donna” (Man/Woman), was later found inside the exhibition center, but the whereabouts of the other 48 works remain unknown.
The exhibition, titled “Like Warm, Liquid Gold,” opened at the end of December and is expected to close on Friday.
The spokesman added that CNN reported that an investigation into the theft was ongoing.
The estate’s director, Giordano Bruno Guerri, said he believed the theft was the work of a “highly professional gang.”
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