Tag: Art theft

French court bailiffs seized over 100 works attributed to Russian avant-garde artists in Paris suspecting they were stolen from a private collector. The seized works, estimated to be worth over

A 17th-century Italian landscape by Salvator Rosa, “A Rocky Coast, with Soldiers Studying a Plan,” stolen from Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford, has been discovered in Romania and returned.

A 19th-century naturalist book that had been missing for 16 years after being stolen from a museum in northern Brazil has been discovered in London and repatriated on 1 May.

A painting stolen over 40 years ago in a smash and grab raid has been safely returned to its owner, Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, UK, after being spotted at an

Brazilian artist Ilê Sartuzi made headlines when he stole a historical coin from the British Museum in London and replaced it with a replica. The artist documented the heist in