“Portrait of a Girl” by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. The painting is missing after a man hired to help sell the painting misplaced it after a night of drinking. The owner valued it at $1.4 million. Tom Doyle and James Carl Haggerty weren’t hobnobbing in Manhattan, Miami or London in early 2007 as the art market was [...]

Gallery-going is not usually a perilous experience, unless you lose your balance near a 9ft ceramic totem called Christina. Only one thing is going to happen and it did. It smashed. The £6,000 sculpture was part of an exhibit in a display at the Royal Academy’s summer exhibition curated by Tracey Emin, who described the [...]

Four paintings by Van Gogh, Cézanne, Degas and Monet worth an estimated SFR180m (£84m) have been stolen from a museum in Switzerland, police said today. Zurich police said Cezanne’s Boy in the Red Waistcoat, Monet’s Poppy Field at Vetheuil, Ludovic Lepic and his Daughter, by Edgar Degas, and Vincent van Gogh’s Blooming Chestnut Branches were [...]