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The Singer Laren Van Gogh Theft
On Van Gogh's birthday in 2020, while the museum was closed for the pandemic, a thief smashed the doors and took 'The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring'. It was recovered in 2023.
Arthur Brand
Dubbed the 'Indiana Jones of the art world', Arthur Brand is a Dutch art detective who has recovered a remarkable string of stolen and looted works by working the grey zone between the underworld and the market. His finds include the monumental bronze horses sculpted for Hitler's Reich Chancellery ('Hitler's Horses'), a Picasso portrait of Dora Maar missing for two decades, Oscar Wilde's ring, and a Van Gogh spirited away during the pandemic. He operates through informants and patient negotiation rather than force, arguing that most stolen art is never sold but circulates as underworld collateral.
The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring
The early Van Gogh stolen from the Singer Laren museum on the artist's birthday in 2020, during the pandemic closure, and recovered in 2023.