Paintings by Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh, which were stolen last week in one of the world's largest art heists, were recovered in an abandoned car in Zurich, Switzerland.

The two paintings, worth an estimated $64 million dollars (44 million euros), were stolen from an museum in Zurich, but police say the artworks were found in good condition at the back seat of a car parked at a psychiatric hospital in the city.

"Poppies near Vetheuil" (1879) by Monet, and "Blossoming Chestnut Branch" (1890) by van Gogh, were positively identified by Lukas Gloor, the director of the Buehrle Museum where they were stolen last Sunday. Two other paintings, "Count Lepic and his Daughters" by Edgar Degas (1871), and "Boy in a Red Waistcoat" by Paul Cezanne (1888), are still missing.

According to the museum director, due to the immense popularity of the missing artworks, it would be nearly impossible for the thieves to sell them, especially in the open market.

The robbery at the Emil Buehrle museum on February 10 is considered as one of the largest art robberies in Europe in the last two decades. The three thieves remain at large. The museum had offered a reward money of 100,000 Swiss francs for any information leading to the paintings' return.