Stolen Dali painting posted back to gallery from Greece

The artwork, which measures 11 inches by 14 inches, was painted in 1949. It
was one of two pictures by the Surrealist artist in the first exhibition the
gallery had staged.

“It was not even the most expensive or smallest item in the show,” said Mr
Lindemann. “Whoever it was clearly did this as it was a Dali.”

Its theft was widely reported and police issued images from surveillance
cameras of a balding man in a checked shirt and dark jeans who they said was
a suspect. The thief walked calmly past a security guard with the picture in
his bag, took a lift three floors down to street level, stepped out of the
lobby and completed his escape by running off.

The theft was itself “quite surreal”, said Mr Lindemann, the polo-playing son
of a billionaire radio station owner, at the time. “There was a security
guard standing right there. So how you don’t see a young, sweaty guy with a
shopping bag I don’t understand.”

Exactly why the painting has now been returned has not yet been explained, and
police said yesterday that no arrests had been made. It is understood that
the return address on the package was bogus and the name of the sender
illegible.

One possibility is that worldwide publicity about its theft meant that the
picture would have been all but impossible to sell. Police officials said
they would not comment further while the investigation continued.

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