Gauguin painting stolen 54 years ago 'found' in Italian factory worker's kitchen

It’s funny how things don’t always turn up where you expect them to. A painting by French artist Paul Gauguin stolen in Britain in 1970 turned up hanging in the kitchen of a retired factory worker in Sicily, Italy.

And guess what? The owner paid only RM104 for it and another ‘missing’ painting by Pierre Bonnard, coincidentally Gauguin’s fellow French avant garde artist of the late 19th century. But that’s not all.