The painting, identified as “Poppy Flowers” by the minister, “was cut out of its frame in the Mahmoud Khalil museum after it opened in the morning,” he said. Two Italians were arrested at Cairo airport trying to smuggle out a Van Gogh painting stolen from a museum earlier on Saturday, Egypt#39;s Culture Minister Faruq Hosni, pictured in 2009. A priceless Vincent Van Gogh painting has been stolen from a Cairo museum in a brazen daytime theft, Culture Minister Faruq Hosni told AFP on Saturday.
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Poppy Flowers by Van Gogh
