Posts Tagged ‘Art Theft’
Hot Haul
The Friday File: 25 years ago Wednesday, $500 million in paintings were stolen from the Gardner Museum in Boston, making it the greatest art heist. Other spectacular ones include the pilfering of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911 (recovered in 1913) and the purloining of Munch’s The Scream in 2004 (recovered in 2006).…
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The Friday file: Because Rembrandt was an economical painter, his works tend to be small and portable. And, because his works sell for tens of millions, Rembrandt’s are stolen more often than any other artist save Picasso. About 80 of his works have been stolen in the last 100 years. The portrait of Jacob de…
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