German police have retrieved a Surrealist painting worth more than $300,000 from a paper-recycling dumpster at Düsseldorf Airport.
The picture by French artist Yves Tanguy, estimated to be worth around €280,000 ($339,000), was accidentally left behind by a businessman at Duesseldorf’s airport.
The abstract landscape first went missing on November 27 when the unnamed businessman accidentally left it at a check-in counter before he boarded a flight to Tel Aviv, Israel.
The artwork, painted in earthy tones, was packaged in a flat cardboard box measuring around 16 x 24 inches. Upon his arrival in Israel, he realized his mistake and contacted the airport authorities to find the lost property, according to German police.