The painting, which shows the sea lapping against a beach in pastel blues and greens, was valued at $1 million (euro0.69 million) at the time of its theft. Photo: EFE/Adam Cierezko.
A Monet painting that was cut from its frame 10 years ago at a museum in western Poland and replaced with a copy painted on [...]
Detail from Paul Cézanne’s The Boy in the Red Vest. The painting was stolen from the Bührle Collection in Zurich in 2008.
The last thing Bond villains and shadowy Mr Bigs want to worry about when buying a piece of art is where it came from. But for consumers who want to be as discerning in [...]
The £3 million bronze sculpture was stolen in December 2005
After more then three and a half years investigating one of the most audacious British art thefts, detectives believe it was almost certainly stolen by travellers and sold on as scrap. Authorities say it most likely ended up feeding China’s growing demand for electrical components.
The bronze [...]
Dutch police showed on Saturday, eight high-value paintings of famous artists, agency ANP reported. These paintings have gone for more than 20 years ago and were discovered only this week.
Pictures Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Willem van der Feld and David Teniers disappeared in 1987 from the gallery “Noortman” in the city of Maastricht. The search [...]
Thieves stole works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and others from a Berlin gallery over the New Year’s holiday. More than 30 works — worth an estimated $250,000 — were stolen, apparently between Wednesday afternoon and lunchtime Thursday, police spokeswoman Claudia Schweiger said. The artwork was taking from the Fasanengalerie, a private gallery near western [...]
Five men have appeared in court accused of demanding £4.25m for the safe return of a Leonardo da Vinci painting.
The Madonna with the Yarnwinder was taken from Drumlanrig Castle, near Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway, in August 2003. Its disappearance from the stately home became Britain’s biggest art theft; an international hunt for the painting followed [...]
Brazilian police have recovered the final piece of artwork that was stolen during a daylight heist at the Estacao Pinacoteca Museum in Sao Paulo on June 12.
Brazilian police present, today August 18, in Sao Paulo, the recovered art work Minotaur, Drinker and Women (1933), made by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso.