Sentence examples for a missing painting from inspiring English sources

A solicitor accused of trying to extort £4.25m from one of Britain's wealthiest peers to recover a missing painting has admitted stealing £350,000 from his own clients' account as well as secretly demanding a £2m reward.

PARIS — More than 70 years after it was plundered by the Nazis, a missing painting by Monet that depicts the shimmering blue rapids of the Creuse River has pitted two of the wealthiest and most prominent families in France against each other.

Beltracchi claimed never to have copied a painting, instead pinpointing gaps in an artist's body of work and creating a missing painting that could have existed in an approach that has been called "method acting on canvas".

The online exhibition explores Nazi plunder and includes a short film about a family reunited with a missing painting.

Those two and a missing painting by Johann Heinrich Tischbein were recovered in recent years and returned to the museum.

Also seeking answers is the Académie des Beaux-Arts, a prestigious French cultural society that has filed a legal complaint seeking an inquiry about a missing painting; Mr. Wildenstein's father, Daniel, and grandfather Georges were elected members.

It owns a Monet that is described as a near twin of the missing painting.

The expert was quickly convinced that the work was a Tournier, Mr. Weiss said, but did not recognize it as the missing painting.

In addition, Bailey has tracked the "missing" painting, charting its progress through private hands after the war to being sold in the 1990s to a "very discreet, private collector" who owns a handful of Van Goghs.

The pictures look intact enough, with their handwritten phrases and clouds filled with dots, until you notice that something is missing: paint, or all but a minimal amount of it.

So they are: the holes are solid metal, the "missing" paint artfully brushed on.