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Kempton Bunton (14 June 1904–April 1976) was an English man who confessed to taking Francisco Goya's painting Portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London in 1961. [3] [2] [4] The story of Bunton and the painting was the subject of the October 2015 BBC Radio 4 drama Kempton and the Duke, and the 2020 film The Duke.
A printed version of the image was sold at auction in 2018 for $1.4 million, but the frame secretly had a shredder installed by the artist which destroyed the bottom half of the painting at the ...
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.
A historic English painting stolen by New Jersey mobsters more than 50 years ago has been returned to its owner after a two-year FBI investigation. 'Priceless' 18th-century painting returned after ...
Art theft, sometimes called artnapping, is the stealing of paintings, sculptures, or other forms of visual art from galleries, museums or other public and private locations. Stolen art is often resold or used by criminals as collateral to secure loans. [ 1 ]
Thirteen works were stolen. In 1990, the FBI estimated the value of the theft at $200 million [42] and raised the estimate to $500 million by 2000. [42] In the late 2000s, some art dealers suggested that the total value of the stolen artwork could be $600 million. [43] It is considered the highest-value museum robbery in history. [citation needed]
Art theft at MSU Texas over the weekend means two paintings — created by university alums and long displayed in the Fain Fine Arts Center — are apparently lost forever somewhere in a landfill.
The theft and subsequent recovery in 1914 generated unprecedented publicity for an art theft, and led to the publication of many cultural depictions such as the 1915 opera Mona Lisa, two early 1930s films (The Theft of the Mona Lisa and Arsène Lupin), and the song "Mona Lisa" recorded by Nat King Cole—one of the most successful songs of the ...