Goya engraving recovered unscathed in Colombia

BOGOTA, Colombia

Monday, 13 October 2008 17:11:45

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Colombian police have recovered an unscathed engraving by the Spanish master Francisco de Goya that was stolen last month from a visiting exhibit.

Bogota police chief Rodolfo Palomino says the small engraving was found in a hotel room by investigators following an informant's lead. No suspects have been arrested, however.

The exhibit's coordinator says the small engraving will go back on display Tuesday with 79 other Goya prints. The work is entitled "Sad Premonitions of What Must Happen" and it is part of the "Disasters of War" series that Goya made between 1810 and 1815.

The pieces are on loan from a Goya foundation in Zaragoza, Spain.