Stolen Work By Leon Gerome Handed to Communist Party
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Stolen Work By Leon Gerome Handed to Communist Party
Jean Leon Gerome, Piscine du Harem.



MOSCOW.- Communist party officials received a painting that had been stolen from the State Hermitage Museum in 2001. The work by French artist Jean Leon Gerome is titled "Piscine du Harem" and is valued at around $1 million dollars. According to Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov an unidentified man brought a package to the Communist party's parliamentary offices. Party officials found a painting cut in four pieces. According to Viktor Petrakov, from Russia's federal culture agency, the work had been identified as the one by Gerome.










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