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The painting was vandalised twice, by two different artists – Peter Fisher and Jacques Rolé – on the opening day of the exhibition, 18 September 1997. Fisher had smuggled blue and red Indian ink into the exhibition, concealed inside two camera film cases; he threw the ink over the painting and smeared it in. After witnessing this, Rolé ...
On 23 February 1988, Enger climbed into a window at the Munch Museum in Oslo and stole the painting Love and Pain by Edvard Munch.In the same year, he was behind the biggest theft of his kind when he broke into the jeweller's shop Tostrup on Karl Johans gate and stole goods worth NOK 4.8 million.
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.
He left the post in 1999 to devote himself full-time to his art. Mthethwa is known for his large format color photographs, but also works in paint and pastel; he has had over 50 solo exhibitions in galleries around the world.
On 24 August 1977, he damaged the painting Archduke Albrecht by Rubens [3] in Düsseldorf and on 7 October 1977 four paintings in Schloss Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel, estimated at more than 25 million euros, among them Rembrandt's Jacob blessing Joseph's second son, 1656, a self-portrait by Rembrandt and Willem Drost's Noli me tangere. [4]
Art Signature Dictionary, One of the largest collections of counterfeit art See more than 4000 pictures of forged paintings and signatures from over 300 renowned artists. Anthony M. Amore (2016). The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 978-1250108609.
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Andrew John Crispo (April 21, 1945 – February 8, 2024) was an American art gallerist and convicted felon. [1] [2] In 1985 Crispo was implicated in the so-called Death Mask Murder of Norwegian fashion student Eigil Dag Vesti.