This is the moment a brazen thief snatched a £1 million oil painting in front of art gallery visitors.
Security video shows a man posing as a gallery worker calmly removing Arkhip Kuindzhi’s Crimean mountain scene from a wall of the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow yesterday.
A police source said: “Witnesses confirmed that when the painting was being removed from the wall, the alarm did not work.
The criminal was seen by a gallery keeper but she did not do anything to stop him.”
Officials today said the painting, titled Ai-Petri Crimea, below, had been recovered and a man arrested.
The painting appeared to have been insured for £150,000, but experts said it could have fetched £1 million.
