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3 Men and a Painting: Savvy accomplices make off with “Golfe, Mer, Falaises Vertes” by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Entering Vienna's oldest auction house, the Dorotheum, just after sunset, three well-dressed men in jackets and coats, working in tandem are believed to have made off with a landscape painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir titled Golfe, Mer, Falaises Vertes (English: Gulf,...
Recovered: “Portrait of Marta Ghezzi Baldinotti” stolen 32 years ago from Palazzo Chigi
The team of the Carabinieri del Nucleo Tutela Patrimonio Culturale (TPC) in Palermo, under the command of Magg. Luigi Mancuso, has proven once again that patience makes perfect when it comes to the recovery of stolen art. While the squad has not yet recovered...
How long does it take to achieve restitution of a looted antiquity? In some cases 25 years or more
PURCHASED ACQ NUMBER DESCRIPTION 29 February 1992 292.AA.10 Statue of Zeus Enthroned On October 27, 2018 a first century BCE, marble statue of Zeus, seated on his throne, finally moved to its permanent home, the...
Recovered? Anonymous tip may have lead to Picasso’s “Tete d’Arlequin” stolen from the Kunsthal in Rotterdam in 2012
On October 16, 2012 Dutch police confirmed that seven paintings had been stolen, shortly after 3 a.m. local time, from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam. The paintings which were taken, Pablo Picasso's Tete d'Arlequin, Henri Matisse's La Liseuse en Blanc et...
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