Paintings

Art auction lots – man arrested

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It was the auction that never was, as police tried to trace a thief who stole £30,000 worth of paintings and pottery from the personal collection of Suffolk artist Bernard Rooke. Art enthusiasts filled the auction rooms at Gaze and Sons in Diss each hoping to pick up one of the 34 pieces of Rooke’s … Read more

Works worth $180m were put in car boot

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THE robbers who committed one of the world’s biggest art robberies in a Zurich museum drove off with $180 million worth of impressionist paintings sticking out of the boot of their car. The three thieves, wearing dark clothes and ski masks, and brandishing handguns, burst into the gated villa of the Emile Buhrle Foundation, a … Read more

Armed gang flee museum with paintings worth 80m hanging out of car boot

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Four impressionist works stolen in daylight heist Audacious raid the second in Switzerland in a week (snip) The Boy in the Red Vest by the French master Paul Cézanne was the museum’s most valuable painting. The others – Van Gogh’s Blossoming Chestnut Branches, Claude Monet’s Poppies near Vetheuil and Edgar Degas’s family portrait, the Count … Read more

Sigh of Relief From the Nervous London Auctions

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Reassurance. That’s what motivated so many dealers and collectors from around the world to flock here this week for the big February art auctions. Reassurance that, despite the shaky state of world financial markets, there are still plenty of people willing to spend millions of dollars to put Impressionist, Modern or contemporary art on their … Read more