Moscow:  Russian police have recovered a multi-million-dollar painting by prominent artist Arkhip Kuindzhi stolen on Sunday from a Moscow gallery as visitors watched on.

A 31-year-old man told police where he had hidden the painting, the newsagency TASS said.

The work, “Ai Petri. Crimea”, was painted in 1908 by Kuindzhi, a Russian artist of Greek origin, and depicts a mountain in the Crimea peninsula.

Kuindzhi’s 1881 work “Birch grove” was sold at auction house Sotheby’s for more than $4 million in 2008.

Reuters