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By Jan HENNOP A Dutch art detective has recovered a precious Vincent van Gogh painting that was stolen from a museum in a daring midnight heist during the coronavirus lockdown three-and-a-half years ago, police said Tuesday. Arthur Brand took possession of the missing painting, the 1884 “Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring”, worth between three and six million euros ($3.2 million), at his Amsterdam home on Monday, stuffed in a blue IKEA bag. Brand, dubbed […]
by Jan HENNOP THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — Thieves stole a painting by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh early Monday in a daring heist from a museum that was closed to the public because of the coronavirus pandemic. The 1884 painting, titled the “Parsonage Garden at Neunen in Spring”, was taken during a pre-dawn break-in at the Singer Laren Museum near Amsterdam. The criminals smashed through a glass door and then took the painting, which […]
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AFP) — Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum unveiled a rare new purchase Tuesday, painted by Vincent’s contemporary Edvard Munch, the only portrait by the Norwegian artist on display in The Netherlands. The “Portrait of Felix Auerbach,” created by Munch in 1906, was bought for an undisclosed amount from a private collection, Van Gogh Museum director Axel Rueger told journalists. “It’s the only portrait by Munch in a Dutch collection,” a beaming Rueger said as […]
(Eagle News) — A new drawing by Vincent van Gogh, dating back to March 1886, has been discovered, according to the Van Gogh Museum. The drawing “The Hill of Montmartre with Stone Quarry” was confirmed following extensive research conducted by the Van Gogh Museum into the subject, style, technique, materials and provenance of the until now, unknown drawing in the collection of the Van Vlissingen Art Foundation. “As a result of this discovery, a […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — Five versions of Vincent Van Gogh’s masterpiece painting “Sunflowers” will be united across three continents for the first time on Monday via a consecutive livestream feed, the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam has said. “On Monday… Facebook is hosting five consecutive livestreams in which international museum directors and conservators present the version of Sunflowers in their own institution,” the museum said on its website. “Five different Sunflowers paintings will be […]
by Fiachra GIBBONS PARIS, France (AFP) — The row over the discovery of a “lost” Vincent Van Gogh notebook took a dramatic new turn Thursday, with experts who back the find demanding a public debate with the Van Gogh Museum, which has dismissed it as a fake. In a point-by-point rebuttal of the museum’s damning assessment of the sketchbook — apparently from the artist’s legendary stay in the French city of Arles — the experts […]
