Painting by Vincent van Gogh worth $6.6 million stolen from Dutch Museum

A painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh was reportedly stolen on March 29 from Singer Laren Museum, near Amsterdam which was closed to public due to coronavirus pandemic. According to international media reports, 1884 painting, titled ‘Parson Garden at Neunen in Spring’, was taken during a pre-dawn break-in as thieves smashed through a glass door and n took painting. art piece was reportedly valued at up to $6.6 million. 

While speaking at a press conference, Jan Rudolph de Lorm, who is museum’s director, said that he was ‘shocked’ and ‘anyed’. ft also took place on 167th birthday of artist. Jan ded that painting was a loan from its owner, Groninger Museum on rth of Nerlands. painting was also from Van Gogh’s early time period before prolific artist embarked on his tremark post-impressionist such as ‘Sunflowers’ and his self-portraits. 

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Dutch art detective Arthur Brand reportedly said that this was third time that Van Gogh’s work was targeted in Nerlands since 1990s. While speaking to an international media outlet, Brand warned that ‘hunt is on’. According to him, robbery looks like work of a ‘copycat’. 

Furrmore, he ted that thieves only went for a Van Gogh, while re were or artworks too. As per reports, museum h almost 3,000 pieces, which included works by Dutch abstract master Piet Mondrian and Dutch-Indonesian painter Jan Toorop and also a casting of ‘ Thinker’ by Auguste Rodin. 

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Previous robberies 

Two Van Gogh’s artwork went back on display at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum last year after y were reportedly stolen from museum in 2002. According to reports, paintings ‘View of Sea at Scheveningen’ and ‘Congregation Leaving Reformed Church at Nuenen’ were also recovered by Italia investigators in September 2016 after raiding a home belonging to an infamous mafia drug baron near Naples. Moreover, previously, three Van Goghs were also stolen from ordbrabants Museum in 1990, however, y were later recovered when a Dutch criminal me a deal with prosecutors. 

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