Van Gogh Painting Stolen From Dutch Museum In Daring Heist During Lockdown
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Vincent van Gogh’s 1884 painting, Parsonage Garden at Nueuen in Spring 1884, was stolen last Monday in a daring heist executed at the Singer Laren Museum near Amsterdam.
The museum is closed off to the public due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to police officials, thieves took this as an opportunity to break into the museum at 3.15am local time by smashing through the glass door entrance. They took the painting and fled.
The painting features a person standing in a garden while surrounded by trees and a church tower in the background. Its value is still unknown, as reported by the South China Morning Post.
One of the museum’s directors, Jan Rudolph de Lorm, told CNN that he was “shocked and unbelievably pissed off” by the theft. The painting was a loan from the Groninger Museum, located at the north of the Netherlands.
Last night this Van Gogh painting was stolen from the Singer Museum in Laren, the Netherlands. The hunt is on... pic.twitter.com/2K9ltNHRPt
— Arthur Brand (@brand_arthur) March 30, 2020
[via NPR, opening image via Everett - Art / Shutterstock.com]
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