The National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana on Feb. 28, 2014
Roberto Leon
Art Stolen From Museum in Cuba Turns Up in Miami
NBC By Mary Murray and Orlando Matos
HAVANA — Nearly 100 works of
"important" Cuban art were stolen from a warehouse of the National
Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuban officials confirmed Friday — and it
may have turned up in Miami.
The Cuban National Council of Cultural Patrimony released a statement Friday
confirming that a number of “important pieces” stored at an
administrative building for the museum are missing, but that there was
no forced entry at the building.
“We do not know exactly
when the theft took place because the criminals cut the paintings from
their frames in a way that the eye could not detect,” the statement said. “Most of the stolen works are from the period called Arte Cubano and are mostly pieces by Leopoldo Romañach.”
And Ramon Cernuda, a prominent Miami art dealer who specializes in 20th century Cuban art, told the Miami Herald that
he discovered the stolen art locally after purchasing a painting by
Eduardo Abela called “Carnaval Infantil” which he subsequently believed
was part of the museum’s collection.
Cernuda
said he called museum officials in Havana to alert them to the theft
and that it was only after his call that they discovered other art works
had been stolen as well.
Cernuda says he has found at least 11 paintings for sale in Miami that belong to the museum’s collection.
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