Ukraine carries five recovered artworks Westfriesmuseum the short term to the Dutch authorities.
These are representatives of the Dutch and Ukrainian Public Ministry agreed. A date is not yet known, but it will be soon, assures a spokeswoman for the museum Hoorn.
The handover will take place at the Dutch Embassy in Kiev. A Dutch expert is traveling this week to the Ukrainian capital to determine the authenticity and condition of the paintings.Three weeks after the handing over the paintings back in Hoorn, the expectation is. The Westfriesmuseum does that festive celebration with the entire city. How that happens, will soon be clear.
Long in uncertainty
Councillor Judith de Jong (Art and Culture) is "delighted and relieved" that the paintings really come back in Dutch hands. "We have been a time of uncertainty about when they would come back."
The five were found working out already beginning to come back this month, but put Ukraine in early August a spoke in the wheel by making all sorts of additional requirements for the identification of the paintings.
The five paintings were with nineteen other cloths and seventy pieces of silverware in early 2005 looted from the Westfriesmuseum. Four works were detected by the Ukrainian authorities and a fifth cloth was cut by an unknown buyer in May this year at the Dutch Embassy in Kiev.
The other paintings and silverware are not detected. They would be in the hands of a far-right militia in Ukraine.
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