Van Gogh Theft Video Out: $6 million artwork robbed in sledgehammer heist at Singer Laren

In a matter of minutes, a priceless Vincent van Gogh artwork was stolen from Singer Laren Museum near Amsterdam in an overnight heist last month. Dutch police have w shared CCTV foot of incident, wherein thief can be seen cruising to museum on a motorbike and raiding place with a sledgehammer in wee hours of March 30. 

Operating alone, thief went straight to Dutch artist's Parson Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884 and was out of site in a blink of an eye through museum gift shop. Singer Laren was shut at time owing to a lockdown of public places in wake of coronavirus pandemic. 

1.15 minutes clip has been doing rounds on social media, with many people shocked over lax security at Amsterdam museum. police hope that wide circulation of heist foot will help m track art thief.

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Take a look at video here:

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Van Gogh's Parson Garden

One of lesser-kwn works of Vincent van Gogh, Parson Garden was at Singer Laren for exhibition on loan from ar Dutch museum in Groninger, Nerlands. Jan Rudolph de Lorm, Singer Laren Museum Director during a live press conference on YouTube, h expressed his shock and anger at ft.

“y knew what y were doing, going straight for famous master,” Jan Rudolph de Lorm told reporters. Van Gogh's 'Parson Garden' has been valued up to $6 million in art market, as per reports. art was stolen on what would have been 20th-century painter’s 167th birthday.

Interpol also tweeted about ft, stating that y have ded painting to ir Stolen Works of Art Database. 

As per international media reports, artwork was a part of Singer Laren's Mirror of Soul exhibition that displayed over 70 Dutch paintings in oil and watercolours that focus of modernist mes such as neo-impressionism, pointillism, expressionism, and cubism.

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Or Stolen Van Goghs

Unfortunately, this wasn't first time influential Dutch artist's work has been stolen. According to a report, as many as 30 van Gogh multimillion-dollar paintings have been stolen in Nerlands since 1988. However, most of m have been recovered over time. 

As per reports, two of Van Gogh’s artwork - View of Sea at Scheveningen and Congregation Leaving Reformed Church at Nuenen - were recovered in 2016 during a raid at house of a mafia drug in Italy.

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Or important imports stolen van Goghs include Poppy Flowers, Blossoming Chestnut Branches, Fortification of Paris with Houses, Breton Women, Weaver's Interior, Four Cut Sunflowers and  Potato Eaters among ors as per  Van Gogh Gallery records.

According to FBI's National Stolen Art File, which keeps a record of stolen artwork and culturally-significant property, about $6 billion worth of art is stolen every year, making underground art business third-most lucrative criminal enterprise around globe after narcotics and arms tre. 

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