Tuesday, 19 July 2011

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