Acting on an anonymous tip, police said they found the watercolors behind a public toilet near Whitworth Art Gallery, where they were stolen during the weekend.
The retrieved pieces were Vincent van Gogh's "The Fortification of Paris" (1878), Pablo Picasso's "Poverty" (1903) and Paul Gauguin's "Tahitian Landscape" (1891-93).
But Andrew Graham-Dixon, presenter of the BBC series "Renaissance," says they could have been taken by "naive thieves" hoping to sell the paintings.
You hear about this kind of thing every once in a while. You can't resell stolen paintings, so what's the use of taking them? I suppose you could ransom them, but that seems to risky. If you have to make contact to get the money, you'll surely be caught.
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