Abductees Van Gogh Painting Is Restored To Cairo Airport: Painting by Van Gogh worth $ 50 million was returned to Cairo airport hours after stolen from the city museum, according to the Minister of Culture of Egypt."Two Italians, a man and a woman, were arrested while trying to flee the country with the picture," said Farouk Hosni.
Painting - known as the color of poppies, and the vase and flowers - was "cut out of the frame" Mahmoud Khalil Museum on Saturday, Mr. Husni said earlier.
The same pattern was previously taken from the same museum in 1978, but restored a decade later in Kuwait.
The police questioned the museum staff and security have been strengthened at airports and seaports through Egypt as a result of theft.
The work, measuring 30cm by 30cm (1ft by 1ft), showing yellow and red flowers, is believed to have been written by Vincent Van Gogh in 1887, three years before his death from self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Mahmoud Khalil Museum was built by Egyptian politician of the same name in 1930, as well as carrying out works of Monet, Renoir and Degas.
Nine paintings by the 19 th century Egyptian ruler Mohammed Ibrahim Pasha had been stolen from the same museum in the past year, but found 10 days later, abandoned on the street.
