Artwork found in police raid on home of alleged con artist involved in heist built around bogus predictions of phoney clairvoyant
A painting by one of Brazil’s most celebrated artists – the pioneering modernist Tarsila do Amaral – has been found stashed under the bed of an alleged trickster who was part of a multimillion pound art heist built around the bogus predictions of a phoney clairvoyant.
One of the most valuable of those artworks was Amaral’s Sol Poente , a spectacular 1929 oil painting that was found concealed in the bottom of a bed during a raid on one of the suspect’s homes.posted on social media showed the stunning moment when Setting Sun was recovered by officers from the civil police’s senior services division at a beachside apartment in Ipanema.
Other artworks that were reportedly stolen from the victim included Mascarada by the modernist master Di Cavalcanti and two other Amaral paintings: Pont-Neuf and O Sono. Both are also reportedly worth tens of millions of pounds. The charlatan crystal gazer falsely claimed the woman’s daughter was on the verge of dying and took her to a fortune teller and an Afro-Brazilian priestess who confirmed that false prediction.
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