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Amsterdam Art Detective Receives a Surprise: Six Stolen Paintings

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Six stolen paintings, valued at over €100,000, were mysteriously delivered to Amsterdam art detective Arthur Brand without a return address. Brand suspects the thieves got scared after the recent recovery of a Van Gogh painting and decided to deposit the paintings on his doorstep.

"Delivered in an Ikea tote": Art investigator retrieves Van Gogh masterpiece pilfered from Dutch museum

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Three years in the past, 'The Parsonage garden at Nuenen in Spring' was snatched during a swift and sudden heist in Laren...

A popular TikTok joke about the theft of the Mona Lisa has confused many people

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A joke TikTok about the Mona Lisa being stolen has gone viral, making many people confused because they thought it was real.

After the stolen Picasso scandal, the owners of a Parisian gallery were given jail time

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Anne and Herbert Pfeffer were found guilty of buying stolen art from Picasso's daughters. They were sentenced to five years in prison and banned from selling art for five years. The gallery, Belle et Belle, was raided by a handyman who stole paintings from their homes.

The crazy story of the two paintings of Van Gogh stolen by a drug baron

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Raffaele Imperiale will be extradited to Italy from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. He is believed to be a leader of the Amato–Pagano gang in the Camorra. The drug baron claims to have purchased Van Gogh paintings worth 20 millions EUR for their artistic value. He has been captured.

80 years after being sold under Nazi occupation, a painting by Kandinsky returns to his heirs

Art News • 3 minutes read
Amsterdam has announced that it will return the 1909 painting of Wassily Kandinsky, which hangs in the Stedelijk Museum, to the heirs and descendants of Emanuel Lewenstein (a Jewish sewing-machine trader).

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