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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 ...
The stolen works were originally procured by art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924) and were intended for permanent display at the museum with the rest of her collection. Among them was The Concert , one of only 34 known paintings by Johannes Vermeer and thought to be the most valuable unrecovered painting in the world.
Lorraine not only resumed painting; she long outlived doctors’ prognoses for her life expectancy — churning out a trove of abstract works in the process — before her death three years ago.
Upon his death from cancer on February 1, 1980, his will made no mention of the artwork. [2] Jane Meador Cook and Jack Meador, Joe's sister and brother, sold the Samuhel Gospel to the Cultural Foundation of the States, an organization based in Berlin and dedicated to repatriating lost German art, for $3 million. [1]
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.
The chalk-painting "Bord de Mer," by Claude Monet, created in 1865. The painting was stolen from Adalbert Parlagi by the Nazis in 1940, and returned to his descendants by the New Orleans FBI ...