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Still Life with Candlestick (Nature morte au chandelier [19]) is a 1922 painting by Fernand Léger. [20] It was one of five paintings stolen from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris on May 20, 2010, which together are worth about €100 million ($123 million). The painting has supposedly been discarded, as one of the thief's ...
Kempton Bunton (14 June 1904–April 1976) was an English man who confessed to taking Francisco Goya's painting Portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London in 1961. [3] [2] [4] The story of Bunton and the painting was the subject of the October 2015 BBC Radio 4 drama Kempton and the Duke, and the 2020 film The Duke.
During the 1994–2002 Quebec Biker war, he recalls, he learned that one member of the Montreal-area Hells Angels served as a fence for art thieves, selling stolen art to the Italian Mafia at 10% of its price, who in turn used the names of dead residents of the affluent suburb of Westmount on faked provenance forms. [28]
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 ...
Art heist movies — think “Ocean’s 8,” “The Thomas Crown Affair,” Audrey Hepburn’s “How To Steal a Million” — always capture the imagination, but of course, audacious thefts are ...
An 18th century British painting stolen by New Jersey mobsters in 1969 has been returned more than a half-century later to the family that bought it for $7,500 during the Great Depression, the FBI ...
The pieces stolen were: Vermeer's The Concert, which is the most valuable stolen painting in the world; two Rembrandt paintings, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (his only known seascape) and Portrait of a Lady and Gentleman in Black; A Rembrandt self-portrait etching; Manet's Chez Tortoni; five drawings by Edgar Degas; Govaert Flinck's ...
The “historical art piece” of the country’s first president is from the early 1800s, Colorado police say. 200-year-old George Washington painting stolen from storage. Hunt on for the ...