Painting stolen works of Paul Gauguin and Pierre Bonnard hung on the kitchen wall Italian factory worker for nearly 40 years , police said .
The artwork is now worth at least £ 8.8 million or Rp165 billion was stolen from the home of a collector in London in 1970 and left on a train in Italy , without anyone knowing who the original owner .
At an auction of goods lost in 1975, an employee of Fiat bought the painting for two £ 19 or Rp357.000 .
He then hung it in her home in Turino before moving to Sicily when they retire .
The new Labour suspect origin painting when her son saw the work of Gauguin other on a book and saw similarities with his father hanging in the kitchen .
The man then contact the experts and the police then notified .
Gauguin painting titled Fruit on a table or a small dog that was made in 1889 was estimated to be worth £ 8.3 m to £ 24.8 million , police said .
While the work of Bonnard , Women with two seats rated £ 500 thousand .
Gauguin was maestro Post- impressionism known near Vincent van Gogh .
While his fellow citizens of France Pierre Bonnard regarded as one of the best coloring of modern art .
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