Edgar Degas " The Chorus"

 

Edgar Degas  " The Chorus"

27 x 32 cm

A work by the 19th century artist Edgar Degas valued at €800,000  was stolen on 31st Decemeber 2009 from the Cantini Museum in the southern port city of Marseille,  in southern France.

Jan Brueghel the Elder "View from Alost"

Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568- 1625)  "View from Alost"
11.5 x 19.5 cm

Stolen from an Art & Antiques Fair  Aelvsjoe (by Stockholm) Sweden February 17, 2002

Giovanni Bellini " Madonna and child"

icon Madonna and Child 15th century

wood and tempera

65cm x 46.5 cm

stolen in france 2011

two works by Igor Radoman

  Portrait of General M. Tsyferova, 1968

 

 

Portrait of Mother, 1968

Renoir and Pissarro

Renoir "Tete de Jeune Fille" (1895)

Oil on canvas

48.5 x 39.5 cm

Pissarro "Chemin De Plaine, Avec un Porte de Jardin a Droite" (1871)

Oil on canvas

46.5 x 55 cm

These two paintings disappeared in 1938 while being shipped from Germany to the United States.

Four masterpieces stolen from Zurich museum

Armed robbers stole four masterpieces – a Degas, a Cezanne, a van Gogh and a Monet – from a museum in Zurich, Switzerland on 10 February 2008.

Just before closing time, three masked robbers entered the museum. One of them threatened the people present with a pistol and forced them to the floor, while the two others took the paintings from the exhibition hall. 

The stolen masterpieces are as follows:  

Edgar DEGAS, 

Count Lepic and his daughters,

Oil on canvas, 65.5 x 81 cm

Paul CEZANNE,  Boy in a red vest, 

Oil on canvas, 80 x 64.5 cm 

Claude MONET,

Poppies near Vétheuil, 

oil on canvas, 71.5 x 90.5 cm 

Vincent van GOGH, 

Blossoming chestnut branches, 

oil on canvas, 72.5 x 91 cm

LS Lowry - "The Viaduct" and "Tanker Entering The Tyne"

 The Viaduct

 

Tanker Entering The Tyne

Stolen from a collector's home in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport UK  May 3,2007

Van Gogh, Vase with Oleanders (1888)

Stolen in 1944

vincent van gogh, Van Gogh, Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen,

 

This painting was  stolen from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam on 7 December 2002

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) View of the Sea at Scheveningen, 1882

 

This painting was  stolen from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam on 7 December 2002

Ivory Coast loses its crown jewels

 

Museum authorities in Ivory Coast have contacted Interpol after thieves stole historic gold jewellery, masks and statues worth an estimated $6m (£3.7m).

The thefts from the country's main museum took place during the recent battle for Abidjan between forces loyal to current President Alassane Ouattara and the former leader Laurent Gbagbo.

Around 80 objects were stolen including royal gold jewellery, masks, sculptures and traditional religious artefacts, some dating back to at least the 17th Century.

the theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

On the night of March 18, 1990, a pair of thieves disguised as Boston police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and roamed the museum’s galleries, stealing thirteen works of art. They gained entry into the museum by posing as Boston police officers and stating that they were responding to a call. The guard on duty broke protocol and allowed them entry through the museum’s security door. Once inside, the thieves asked that the guard come around from behind the desk, claiming that they recognized him and that there was a warrant out for his arrest. The guard walked away from the desk and away from the only alarm button. The guard was told to summon the other guard on duty to the security desk, which he did. The thieves then handcuffed both guards and took them into the basement where they were secured to pipes and their hands, feet, and heads duct taped. The two guards were placed 40 yards away from each other in the basement. The next morning, the security guard arriving to relieve the two night guards discovered that the museum had been robbed

 

Rembrandt, Self portrait  1634

 

Manet, Chez Tortoni, 1878–1880

 

Govaert Flinck, Landscape with an Obelisk, 1638

 

drawings by Edgar Degas

Rembrandt, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, 1633

 

On the night of March 18, 1990, a pair of thieves disguised as Boston police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and roamed its galleries, stealing from it thirteen priceless works of art.  Rembrandt’s Storm on the Sea of Galilee,  is the artist’s only known seascape,

Rembrant's " Gentleman and lady in black" (1633)

This monumental work hung in a prominent spot in the Dutch Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, visible through its windows overlooking the court, this painting was stolen March 18, 1990.

a collection of impressionist works

In 1972 an unknown thief stole a collection of impressionist works from the town hall of  Bagnois sur Ceze, France, the collection is worth millions.

picasso's "Portrait of Dora Maar"

In March 11, 1999 an abstract oil canvas by Pablo Picasso (Spanish 1881-1973) was stolen from a Yacht.  The ship "Coral Island" was in the French port of Antibes, when the theft occurred.

lucien freud's " francis bacon"

 The 1951 painting was stolen in broad daylight from  Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie in May 1988

Jan Vermeer's " The Concert"

At 1:24 a.m. March 18,1990 as St. Patrick's Day came to a close thieves struck the Isabella Stewart  Gardner Museum in Boston MA.

Caravaggio's Nativity with San Lorenzo and San Francesco

In October 1969, two thieves entered the Oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo, Italy and removed the Caravaggio Nativity from its frame. Experts estimate its value at $20 million.