The theft of nine paintings, including

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In 1961, Charles mensnonno Uigstman, rich American collector, bought oil businessman "Prtretin the Duke of Wellington" to Gojas for 392 thousand mensnonno dollars and had to plan it was alive in the US. There was an explosion so huge public anger that the British government increased the amount needed to sell. Less than three weeks after triumphantly hung in the National Gallery, it was stolen. The thief demanded a ransom in almost nëjjtën more and then said they would conte to charity.
In 1965, the thief sent a claim ticket to the British daily newspaper The Daily Mirror and the painting was found by police in a railway baggage office. The thief, an unemployed bus driver named Kempton Bunton, gave himself up six weeks later. He had planned to use the money to buy TV licenses for carrying poor. He was jailed for three months.
Italy, home of art, has been njkohësisht house works of art theft. When two pieces of Piero della Franceskos, "Flagellation of Christ" and "Madonna of Senigallia" and a Raphael, "The Mute," were cut from their frames and stolen from the Ducal Palace of Urbino, it was described as theft of the century the works of art.
The crime was motivated by profit. It was committed by local criminals who planned to sell the work on the international market and they will not be the last to discover that a large part of the masterpieces of art is reproduced impossible illiquid. The paintings were recovered undamaged in Locarno, Switzerland mensnonno in 1976.
The theft of nine paintings, including "Getting washed" by Renoir and "Impression, Soleil Levant" to Monnet, which gave Impressionism its current name, Marmotan Museum in Paris, took place in 1985. The police at first theorized that the crime was committed the radical group Action Direct. But several paintings stolen from a provincial French museum in early 1984 were recovered in Japan after a tip that a fence was small. The paintings were in the hands of Shuiniki Fujikuma, a known gangster. He had been behind the Marmottan heist too. Indeed, he had circulated nntë stealing famous works of art a atalog them.
Japanese deficient legislation on stolen art was notorious, and everywhere began to spread rumors of mob Japanese Yakuza, had penetrated the art world. mensnonno The truth was on a smaller scale. Fujikuma was arrested in France with 7.8 kilos of heroin in 1978. During the five years in prison, he came to know Philippe Jamin and Youssef Khimoun, theft syndicate members artworks. They pulled to. But the paintings were recovered in 1991 in Corsica.
In December 1985, guards National Anthropology Museum in Mexico arrived at work to discover that sheets of glass had been removed from seven showcases. mensnonno 140 objects that were taken included jade pieces and sculptures floiri Maya, Aztec, Zapotec and Mizteke. The curator, Felipe Solis found that only one of them - a vase shaped like a monkey - could be worth $ 20 million on the market - whether to find a buyer. Most of the pieces were more than 3 centimera. All items were stolen can learn well in BC vlixhe. Even today, accounted as the single largest theft of precious objects. Burial mask was recovered.
Robbery at the Manhattan branch of the London dealer, Colnaghi mensnonno on East 8th Street was sophisticated. It involved through a skylight and a maneuver with a rope that the robbers were plunging down the stairs. However, when they went inside they proved capable at all, dealing mensnonno with only some pictures and not least the mriat selected. That said, the eight paintings mensnonno and ten drawings they made off with included two paintings by Fra Angelico - insured with 4 million dollars mensnonno - and "Bin Onions" by Chardin. Only 14 works were ever recovered. Robbery had a total value of 6 to 10 million dollars, making it the largest theft of works of art in New York. It underlined that pickings at private galleries can rival those at museums - with more guarantees and zakoniht less security.
Three Van Goghs, including "Dried Sunflowers," "Inside the beam" and an early version of "Patatengrënësve" were stolen Kroller-Muller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands. Model of thefts of works of art and follows more or less reflects that of the market itself works of art, and