Results for “Matisse”
The Kunsthal Rotterdam Heist
In a two-minute raid in 2012, thieves took seven works — by Picasso, Monet, Matisse, Gauguin and Freud — from the Kunsthal. The mother of one suspect later claimed she burned them.
The Gurlitt Hoard
A routine tax inquiry uncovered some 1,500 artworks hidden in a Munich apartment — many looted or sold under duress during the Nazi era. The discovery reignited the global reckoning over restitution.
The Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris Theft
In 2010 a lone burglar removed five paintings — Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Léger, Modigliani — from the Paris Museum of Modern Art. The thief was caught; the paintings never resurfaced.
Elmyr de Hory
Hungarian-born painter who became one of the 20th century's most prolific art forgers, producing hundreds of works passed off as Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, and other modern masters. His story, and the dealers who sold his fakes, was immortalised in Clifford Irving's book 'Fake!' and Orson Welles's film 'F for Fake'. Check out this documentary @ Great Documentaries YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zurHc4itBXg And this Trailer for Orson Welles' "F is For FAKE": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUAwgt2Z-3Y
Guy Ribes
French forger who produced thousands of convincing fakes attributed to Chagall, Picasso, Renoir, Matisse, and others, many of which still circulate with false certificates. After serving prison time he went straight, later painting the on-screen artworks for the film 'Renoir'.
Geert Jan Jansen
Dutch forger who flooded the European market with fakes attributed to Karel Appel, Picasso, Matisse, and others — reportedly so convincing that Appel himself once authenticated a Jansen forgery. Arrested in France in 1994, he was released on a technicality and now sells signed 'Jansen' works openly.
La Pastorale
A Fauvist Matisse taken in the 2010 Paris Museum of Modern Art theft, still unaccounted for.
Reading Girl in White and Yellow
A Matisse interior among the seven works taken in the 2012 Kunsthal Rotterdam theft.
