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Art theft

June 2024

  • Detail from Titian’s The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1508).

    Storied Titian painting found at London bus stop after theft goes to auction

    Work by 16th century master is expected to fetch between £15m and £25m when it goes on sale at Christie’s

May 2024

  • man in uniform stands in front of antiquities on display

    US returns stolen Italian art worth $65m in vow to put loot back ‘where it belongs’

  • Oil painting of José Capelo by Francis Bacon

    Spanish police recover Francis Bacon painting worth €5m

April 2024

  • Exterior of Warsaw University library

    Georgians arrested over cross-Europe thefts of rare library books

  • Marie-Antoinette gave the jug and basin to Louise-Élisabeth de Croÿ de Tourzel, a distant relative of the owner of the chateau.

    Jug and basin Marie Antoinette gave to governess recovered 37 years after theft

March 2024

  • A gold rectangular ring

    Gold statues and jewellery stolen in €1m heist at museum by Lake Garda

    Items by Italian sculptor Umberto Mastroianni taken from exhibition at the Vittoriale degli Italiani estate

February 2024

  • Van Gogh’s Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring.

    Stolen Van Gogh on display for first time since being returned to Dutch art sleuth

  • Vittorio Sgarbi

    Italian minister investigated over alleged art theft quits

January 2024

  • big painting in a living room as an older man looks on

    Family reunited with John Opie painting stolen by New Jersey mob 54 years ago

  • A detail from Franz von Stuck’s Es war einmal, 1891.

    Manufacturing giant develops revolutionary system to detect counterfeit art

  • One of the recovered paintings, Tête by Pablo Picasso.

    Stolen Chagall and Picasso artworks found in Antwerp basement

  • Italy Daily Life 2023<br>MILAN, ITALY - OCTOBER 10: Vittorio Sgarbi, The Undersecretary of Culture poses during a press preview of 'El Greco' to Palazzo Reale in Milan on October 10, 2023 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images)

    Italian minister accused of possessing painting stolen from castle

October 2023

  • Arthur Brand with six paintings he recovered.

    Dutch art sleuth recovers a further six stolen paintings

  • A visualisation of the planned Unesco virtual museum.

    Unesco planning virtual museum of stolen cultural artefacts

September 2023

  • The 17th century bronze Buddha statue stolen from Barakat Gallery in Los Angeles.

    Police investigate heist of $1.5m Buddha statue from California gallery

  • Arthur Brand

    Arthur Brand: ‘I never give up informants - they will shoot you dead’

  • ANU<br>Dr Georgia Pike-Rowney, curator of the ANU Classics Museum, views the Johnson Vase.

    ANU museum to hand back stolen 2,500-year-old vase to Italy

  • The Dutch art detective Arthur Brand poses with Vincent van Gogh’s Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring

    ‘A little bit cursed’: how stolen Van Gogh was a ‘headache’ for the criminal world

August 2023

  • People walking in the British Museum with its arched ceiling in the Great Court and curved-walled Reading Room

    ‘Nobody was expecting it’: British Museum warned reputation seriously damaged and treasures will take decades to recover

  • A police car patrols around the British Museum in London on 17 August.

    First Edition newsletter
    Monday briefing: Are the vanished British Museum relics the tip of the iceberg?

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