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Many valuable paintings have been stolen.The paintings listed are from masters of Western art which are valued in millions of U.S. dollars.The US FBI maintains a list of "Top Ten Art Crimes"; [1] a 2006 book by Simon Houpt, [2] a 2018 book by Noah Charney, [3] and several other media outlets have profiled the most significant outstanding losses.
Wall art teacher Jill Alexander thought her four paintings stolen in 2022 were gone for good. Now U.S. Rep. Chris Smith has spurred renewed interest. Two years after trail went cold, FBI renews ...
A painting by Vincent van Gogh that was stolen over three years ago has finally been recovered — with a little damage but apparently “still in good condition,” officials at the Netherlands ...
The Art Loss Register is a commercial computerized international database which captures information about lost and stolen art, antiques and collectables. It is operated by a commercial company based in London. In the U.S., the FBI maintains the National Stolen Art File, "a database of stolen art and cultural property. Stolen objects are ...
Other stolen items Anthony Van Dyck’s A Soldier On Horseback and Annibale Carracci’s A Boy Drinking have not been recovered. Salvator Rosa painting recovered in Romania after being stolen from ...
The Nationalmuseum robbery was the robbery of three paintings worth a combined total of $30–45 million USD from the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Sweden, on 22 December 2000. [1] [2] The stolen paintings were a self-portrait by Rembrandt and two Renoir paintings, Conversation and Young Parisian. [1] [2] The paintings have been recovered.
The artworks, stolen from an old town hall in the small coastal town of Medemblik in north Holland and valued at €100,000, have been returned to art detective Arthur Brand nearly 40 miles away ...
This time the thieves targeted the version held by the Munch Museum, from where the two paintings were stolen at gunpoint and during opening hours. Both paintings were recovered on August 31, 2006, relatively undamaged. Three men have already been convicted, but the gunmen remain at large. If caught, they could face up to eight years in prison.