Dutch museum says van Gogh painting stolen in overnight raid
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Dutch museum says van Gogh painting stolen in overnight raid
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Re: Dutch museum says van Gogh painting stolen in overnight raid
#2What's with European museums and robbers? I've rarely or never heard Asian or American museums get robbed.
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#3Photo of the artwork is missing from apnews. You can find one here - https://news.artnet.com/art-world/thieves-stolen-van-gogh-ma...
Re: Dutch museum says van Gogh painting stolen in overnight raid
#4What's with European museums and robbers? I've rarely or never heard Asian or American museums get robbed.
There's actually a fairly famous case in the Boston area of an American museum being robbed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museu...
In general it's pretty rare for museums to get robbed because while art pieces are valuable, once stolen and reported as such, they have to be returned to the rightful owners when found. As such, they can't be resold through public channels such as art actions, and even private sales are risky
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#5What's with European museums and robbers? I've rarely or never heard Asian or American museums get robbed.
For examples of American museums, take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_theft#Famous_cases_of_art_..., in particular https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museu....
Re: Dutch museum says van Gogh painting stolen in overnight raid
#6What's with European museums and robbers? I've rarely or never heard Asian or American museums get robbed.
Europeans have a long track record of looting priceless things. Before it used to be from other countries.
Re: Dutch museum says van Gogh painting stolen in overnight raid
#7What's with European museums and robbers? I've rarely or never heard Asian or American museums get robbed.
You'd think paintings worth large amounts of money they would add GPS trackers and motion detectors into the frame.
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#8What's with European museums and robbers? I've rarely or never heard Asian or American museums get robbed.
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#9Re: Dutch museum says van Gogh painting stolen in overnight raid
#10I'm surprised that, at this point, there are still originals in museums, especially for very desirable works as some replicas are hard to tell apart from the original. It can be done. If they hire professional 'replicators', this type of museum theft could be completely eradicated.
Another possibility is that maybe in this case a replica was stolen and the museum doesn't want to divulge that.
And want to add that this stolen work is almost un-sellable, everybody knows is missing and if it ever resurfaces it will be claimed back, thus nobody would want to own it. But what do I know..