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Waddesdon Manor heist Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire £5 million [15] £10 million 2003 Whitworth Art Gallery heist Manchester £4 million [47] £8 million 2004 Gallaher Group cigarette robbery Belfast £2 million [48] £3.9 million 2004 Northern Bank robbery: Belfast £26.5 million [49] £51.4 million 2005 Graff robbery 2005 Sloane Street, London
The Whitworth is an art gallery in Manchester, England, containing over 60,000 items in its collection. The gallery is located in Whitworth Park and is part of the University of Manchester . In 2015, the Whitworth reopened after it was transformed by a £15 million capital redevelopment that doubled its exhibition spaces, restored period ...
Whitworth Art Gallery April 26, 2003 Three artworks— Vincent van Gogh 's The Fortification of Paris with Houses , Pablo Picasso 's Blue Period Poverty and Paul Gauguin 's Tahitian Landscape —valued at £4 million were discovered missing by staff at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester on the morning of Sunday April 27, 2003.
Two thieves dressed as Boston cops made off with $500m in stolen art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum more than three decades ago. No arrests have ever been made, the case remains unsolved ...
After twenty-five years, one of the country's most notorious art heists has still not been solved. Neither of the two robbers of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston have been captured ...
The 1990 robbery of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum remains a part of that institution’s life to this day, as empty frames hang on the wall marking the spots from which paintings were ...
Connor had worked with Donati in past art heists [150] and claimed the two cased the Gardner Museum [149] [151] where Donati took interest in the finial. [149] Connor also claimed that Houghton visited him in jail after the heist and said that he and Donati organized it and were going to use the paintings to get Connor out of jail. [150]
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.