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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 FBI recovered the painting in 2023, after it appeared for sale at a Houston-based gallery. ... estimates about 90% of the artwork and other possessions stolen by the Nazis is still missing ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
List of stolen paintings; Timeline of Montreal history; 2011 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts theft, the only subsequent theft in the museum's history, from which one of two stolen pieces have been recovered; took place on September 3, one day before 39th anniversary of 1972 robbery
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.