A hitherto unknown painting by Jackson Pollock from 1949 has been discovered in Bulgaria during an operation by the Bulgarian and the Greek anti-organized crime services, coordinated by Europol, the BNR has found out from sources of its own. According to experts, the painting may be worth up to EUR 50 million. The operation, targeted at the trafficking of cultural objects, took place in Sofia, in Athens and on the island of Crete. Three Greek and one Bulgarian citizen have been detained. Five other paintings by prominent artists have been seized during parallel operations by the Greek police on the island of Crete and in Athens.
Jackson Pollock is an American painter, a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He died in 1956 at the age of 44.
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