A Cavalier- Frans Van Mieris

On June 10, 2007, A Cavalier, a self portrait in oil on wood panel by Dutch Master Frans Van Mieris, was stolen from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. The piece was stolen while the gallery was open for public viewing. The relatively small portrait measures 20 x 16 cm. Its value is estimated at over $1 million.

Theft from the Museu Chacara Do Céu, Rio De Janeiro

 

Salvador Dali, 1929, Two Balconies23.5 cm x 34.5 cm  

 

Henri Matisse, 1905, Luxembourg Garden40.5 cm x 32 cm  

 

Pablo Picasso, 1956, Dance 100 cm x 81 cm  

 

Claude Monet, 1880-1890, Marine
65 cm x 91 cm  

On February 24, 2006, about 4:00 PM, four works of art and other objects were stolen from the Museu Chacara do Céu, Rio de Janeiro, by four armed men. The value of the stolen items has not been estimated. 

 

 

 

Theft of Cezanne's View of Auvers-sur-Oise Cezanne

 

On December 31, 1999, during the fireworks that accompanied the celebration of the millennium, a thief broke into the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England and stole Cezanne’s landscape painting View of Auvers-sur-Oise. Valued at £3 million, the painting has been described as an important work illustrating the transition from early to mature Cezanne painting.

Theft of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Murals

In July 2002, two oil paintings by Maxfield Parrish were stolen during a burglary of a gallery in West Hollywood, California. The paintings are two panels from a series commissioned for Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's 5th Avenue mansion in New York. The paintings were cut from their frames during the theft. The value of the two paintings is estimated at $4 million.

femme a la Corbeille - renoir

Period:	1819
Artist(s):	RENOIR
Technics:	PAINTING / OIL

Height:	47 cm
Width:	61 cm
Signature state:	LEGIBLE SIGNATURE
Materials:	CANVAS/COTTON/FABRIC/LINEN

Case happened in:

France

femme au chignon - COCTEAU

Period:	1957
Artist(s):	COCTEAU

Signature state:	LEGIBLE SIGNATURE
Materials:	CERAMIC

Case happened in:

France

bunch of wallflowers- NIVOULIES DE PIERREFORT

Height:	54 cm
Width:	62 cm
Signature state:	WITH SIGNATURE
Materials:	CANVAS/COTTON/FABRIC/LINEN

Case happened in:

France

BRIDGE OF SIGHS IN VENICE- bombard

Height:	50 cm
Width:	35 cm
Signature state:	LEGIBLE SIGNATURE
Materials:	CANVAS/COTTON/FABRIC/LINEN	Stolen: belgium

Self portrait - VELASQUEZ

 stolen :    France

Height:	35 cm
Width:	29.5 cm
Materials:	CANVAS/COTTON/FABRIC/LINEN

Arrow composition - JONONE

Height:	50 cm
Width:	48 cm
Signature state:	LEGIBLE SIGNATURE
Materials:	IRON/TINPLATE/STEEL, WOOD, GLASS

stolen : France

Apprets Culinaires dans une cour D'Auberge - WYCK

Height:	50 cm
Width:	41 cm
Signature state:	WITH SIGNATURE
Materials:	WOOD

stolen : France

Abstract - PARISIO

Height:	80 cm
Width:	80 cm
Signature state:	WITH SIGNATURE
Materials:	CANVAS/COTTON/FABRIC/LINEN						stolen :Italy

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