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BERLIN - A surrealist painting worth more than a quarter million euros (dollars) that was forgotten by a businessman at Duesseldorf's airport has been recovered from a nearby recycling dumpster, police said Thursday.
Precious Painting Lost At German Airport Found In Dumpster
The artwork, by French surrealist Yves Tanguy, was left at a check-in counter at Dusseldorf;s airport last month.
Polizei Duesseldorf via AP
Chief Detective Michael Dietz of the Dussedorf Police Department holds a painting from French artist Yves Tanguy. A businessman, whose identity was not given, boarded a flight from Duesseldorf to Tel Aviv on Nov. 27, but forgot the painting by French surrealist Yves Tanguy, which was wrapped in cardboard, on the check-in counter. By the time he landed in Israel and contacted Duesseldorf police, the $340,000 work of arthad disappeared but was later found at a nearby paper dumpster, Duesseldorf police said.