Over 400 works of art by celebrated Dutch 20th century expressionist painter Karel Appel have been discovered in a warehouse in Britain, a decade after they disappeared, the Guardian reports.

Appel, who died in 2006 at the age of 85, never recovered from the loss of a lifetime’s worth of drawings, sketches, notebooks and other works worth hundreds of thousands of euros, the paper says.
The collection vanished in 2002 while en route from Appel’s studio to the newly-created Karel Appel Foundation in Amsterdam and was reported to the police and the Art Loss Register.
Boxes
The works were found in eight boxes by staff brought in to clear out the warehouse before the Christmas break. One worker researched the name Karel Appel and some 30 drawings were then taken to experts at auction house Bonhams for their assessment. The works turned out to be on the ALR’s database of stolen work.
The paper says the logistics company, which has now reached a settlement, declined to be identified or contacted.
Art historian Rudi Fuchs told the Volkskrant he hoped more details about the disappearance and the find would be made public.