ROANOKE TIMES 

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, June 28, 1990                   TAG: 9006280706
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: DEN BOSCH, NETHERLANDS                                LENGTH: Short

3 EARLY VAN GOGHS STOLEN FROM MUSEUM

Three early oil paintings by 19th-century Dutch master Vincent van Gogh have been stolen from a small provincial museum in this southern town, the third theft in two years of Van Gogh works.

The paintings taken Wednesday night were identified as "The Sitting Farmer's Wife", "The Digging Farmer's Wife" and "Wheels of the Water Mill in Gennep".

Guy Jennings, an Impressionism expert at Christie's auction house in London, said by telephone that such minor works by Van Gogh are worth about $1 million each but would be virtually impossible to sell on the open market.

-Associated Press 


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