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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.
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 ...
Also included are works that were recovered and then lost or stolen again, such as van Gogh's Poppy Flowers. Pages in category "Recovered works of art" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total.
Three paintings were stolen from a German gallery in 1994, two of them belonging to the Tate Gallery in London. In 1998, Tate conceived of Operation Cobalt, the secret buyback of the paintings from the thieves. The paintings were recovered in 2000 and 2002, resulting in a profit of several million pounds for Tate, because of prior insurance ...
The family of the Parisian art dealer Paul Rosenberg recovered paintings by Matisse, Monet, Léger and Bonnard. In 2001, Feliciano sued the Rosenberg family alleging that Mrs. Rosenberg, the widow of Mr. Rosenberg's son, Alexandre had made an oral contract with him promising that she would compensate him for tracking down paintings that were ...
This category is for well-known works of art which have been considered stolen (or articles about their theft) and are either missing or have been recovered. Cases of national dispute of ownership should not go in this category, even though in some cases they are considered art theft .
The paintings left Austria in March 2006 and were on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art until June 30, 2006. Months after the Austrian government returned Altmann's family's belongings, she consigned the Klimt paintings to the auction house Christie's to be sold on behalf of her family.
Cave art hoax with accompanying exhibit label, hung on a wall in the British Museum, removed after two or three days and subsequently accessioned; in 2005. [1]Two works jetwashed away and a third work, of a boy holding a stereo and a teddy bear, the subject of legal action opposing its ablation by Hackney Council in order "to keep streets clean", in Dalston, London; in 2009.