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The Bührle Collection Robbery
In one of Europe's largest art robberies, armed men walked into the Bührle museum in Zurich in 2008 and took four Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces. Most were recovered within years.
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist
In the early hours after St. Patrick's Day 1990, two men dressed as police officers talked their way into the Gardner Museum and left with thirteen works of art. It remains the largest unsolved property theft in history. With a current value of $1 Billion.
The Brugnara Art Fraud
San Francisco real-estate figure Luke Brugnara accepted $11 million in art — Degas, Picasso, de Kooning, Miró — then declared them gifts and refused to pay. His 2015 fraud trial became a courtroom spectacle.
Luke Brugnara
A San Francisco real-estate figure who, in 2014, took possession of roughly $11 million in art — works attributed to Degas, Picasso, de Kooning, Miró and George Luks — and then refused to pay, claiming they were gifts. Convicted of mail and wire fraud in 2015 after a chaotic trial in which he represented himself, briefly escaped custody, and was cited for contempt, he was sentenced to seven years. A $3 million Degas bronze remained unaccounted for after the FBI raid.
Program for an Artistic Soirée
One of five Degas works on paper taken in the 1990 Gardner heist and still missing.
Cortège aux Environs de Florence
A Degas drawing among the thirteen works stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.
La Sortie de Pesage
Another Degas racecourse study among the Gardner's thirteen missing works.
Three Mounted Jockeys
A Degas racing scene taken in the Gardner heist and never recovered.
Three Decades On, the Gardner Reward Still Stands at $10 Million
The museum reaffirms its offer as investigators mark another anniversary of the unsolved 1990 heist.
A Ballerina Meets Climate Protest
A climate activist in a fluorescent vest smeared red and black paint over Degas' 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen' — but the sculpture sat safely inside a sealed display case.