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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 ...
Breda Museum hosted an exhibition called Vincent van Gogh: Lost and Found between November 2003 and February 2004. The show-piece of the exhibition was a painting Houses near the Hague, which the museum claimed had been authenticated by their experts as painted by Vincent on the basis of x-ray analysis. The painting had come from the so-called ...
A painting by Van Gogh that went missing 40 years ago might've finally been found. Tax collectors in Spain came across what they believe is a long lost Van Gogh painting, titled "Cypress Sky and ...
Lost portrait of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham; Portrait of Isabella of Portugal (van Eyck) Portrait of Napoleon III (Winterhalter) Portrait of Philip the Good (van der Weyden) Portrait of Phillis Wheatley; Portrait of Winston Churchill (Sutherland) Prague Altarpiece of Lucas Cranach the Elder; Psyche (painting) Pulp Fiction (Banksy)
Paul Cassirer, a German Jewish art dealer, played a key role in bringing van Gogh artworks to Germany before the war. [40] [41] While French museums owned only three van Goghs before WWII, van Gogh was, according to Felix Krämer, co-curator of the 2019 exhibition Making Van Gogh: A German Love Story, the most popular modern artist in Germany ...
A Monet artwork believed to have been lost during Nazi occupation in WWII has been returned to its rightful owners after a lengthy investigation spanning decades and continents.
The Mont-Saint-Michel Island, depicted in the famous painting of the same name by James Webb in 1857, is a famous tourist destination. Its history dates back to the 8th century. Bishop Aubert ...