An informer’s tip led the South African police on Tuesday to a private cemetery in Port Elizabeth where they found four paintings hundreds of miles from the Pretoria Art Museum, from which they were stolen on Sunday, the authorities said. One oil painting of a South African township streetscape by Gerard Sekoto, worth about $800,000, remains missing. Brig. Marinda Mills of the South African Police Service said the authenticity of the paintings was being verified. No arrests have been made. The robbers posed as eager students with their teacher, paying for tickets and asking a curator to show them specific paintings. Then they pulled out pistols, tied up the curator and fled with the works they had asked about, officials said.
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