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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.
The stolen works were originally procured by art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924) and were intended for permanent display at the museum with the rest of her collection. Among them was The Concert , one of only 34 known paintings by Johannes Vermeer and thought to be the most valuable unrecovered painting in the world.
The chalk-painting "Bord de Mer," by Claude Monet, created in 1865. The painting was stolen from Adalbert Parlagi by the Nazis in 1940, and returned to his descendants by the New Orleans FBI ...
For Claire, a now-70-year-old Jewish French woman living in Paris, it was the beginning of a 13-year battle to track down her grandfather’s stolen art, including precious paintings by 19th ...
He also notes that criminal organizations have found stolen art useful in other ways. 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 ...
Dubbed "a living legend" by The Wall Street Journal, Wittman is a real-life art detective who has dedicated his life to recovering stolen art and other cultural property worth more than $225 ...
Chez Tortoni is a painting by the French artist Édouard Manet, painted ca. 1875.The oil-on-canvas painting measures 26 by 34 centimetres (10 in × 13 in). [1] The painting hung in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston, Massachusetts, United States prior to its theft in 1990 and it has not yet been recovered. [2]
January 12, 2023 at 7:44 AM Screengrab from court documents A Van Gogh painting of a woman immersed in a novel is at the center of a lawsuit an art collector filed against a Michigan art gallery.