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Art Theft

Paris Art Thieves Receive 21 Years Collectively For Hundred Million Heist

The trial of the 2010 ‘Spider-Man’ burglary at the Musee d’Art Moderne in Paris has concluded securing an eight year sentence for 49-year-old Serbian mastermind Vjeran Tomic.

21 February 2017

News

Art Dealer Yves Bouvier Questioned Over Stolen Picasso Sales

The Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier, the head of art storage, shipping, and servicing company Natural Le Coultre, as well… Read More

15 September 2015

Art News, News

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol’s Jewish Geniuses Stolen And Replaced With Fakes

Nine Warhol prints of Jewish icons including Sigmund Freud and Gertrude Stein have gone missing from the walls of a… Read More

10 September 2015

Art News, News

Artnapping: Should Museums Pay The Ransom Or Lose The Art?

In 2013 Van Buuren Museum, Brussels, suffered a robbery in which several works of art were stolen from its collection;… Read More

22 April 2015

Features, Opinion

Château De Fontainebleau

Thieves Steal Priceless Gold And Bronze Artworks From Château De Fontainebleau, Paris

French authorities are searching for 15 gold and bronze artworks stolen from the Château de Fontainebleau in an early morning… Read More

3 March 2015

Art News, News

Bryan Pearce

Bryan Pearce Outsider Art Stolen In Cornwall Heist

Works by outsider artist Bryan Pearce have been stolen from a quiet Cornwall village. The burglar took the works from… Read More

17 February 2015

Art News, News

Marc Chagall

America’s Only Art Cop Gets Conviction – Chagall Thief Gets Four Years

An art thief that tried to sell a number of stolen expressionist masterpieces that including paintings by Marc Chagall and… Read More

16 February 2015

Art News, News

Jean De Boulogne

Stolen De Boulogne Sculpture Rediscovered In Museum Toilet In Paris

There has been a strange art theft that mirrors the recent attempts to steal another work of art. Le Monde… Read More

12 January 2015

Art News, News

50 Paintings Stolen In Audacious Madrid Gallery Heist

Some 50 paintings worth an estimated €400,000 or £317,000, were stolen by three men who broke into an art gallery… Read More

15 December 2014

Art News, News

Emil Nolde

Drunken German Students Steal Emil Nolde Painting Worth Millions

Two students from the southern German town of Erlangen will appear before a court on Tuesday to face charges that… Read More

1 December 2014

Art News, News

£150 Million Turkish State Art And Sculpture Museum Heist Was An Inside Job

It has now been revealed that an organised crime syndicate stole up to 302 works of art from Turkey’s State… Read More

14 November 2014

Art News, News

Accused Picasso Thieves To Finally Stand Trial After Fresh Evidence Comes To Light

News flashed around the world in 2010. “Never before has such an important ensemble of works – completely unknown until… Read More

5 November 2014

Art News, News

Henri Matisse

Recovered Matisse And Its Forgery Displayed Together For First Time In Venezuela

A Henri Matisse masterpiece is back on display at Venezuela’s Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas Sofia Imber (MACCSI), alongside… Read More

29 October 2014

Art News, News

Female Banksy Has Charity Linked Art Stolen

The artist known as the ‘female Banksy’ has had her work stolen. Art thieves made off with street art by… Read More

24 October 2014

Art News, News

Henri Rousseau

Henri Rousseau Painting Stolen From Museum Charlotte Zander

A painting by artist Henri Rousseau the famous Post-Impressionist; was stolen from Germany’s Museum Charlotte Zander on October 3rd of… Read More

14 October 2014

Art News, News

Was Stolen Rembrandt A Fake?

Questions raised about the authenticity of recovered LA Rembrandt – “This is clearly a work of Rembandt’s school rather than… Read More

19 August 2011

Art News, News

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