For this Art Wednesday we’ll look at works that have been stolen and are likely never to be recovered. This Rembrandt—Storm on the Sea of Galilee, 1633—went missing in the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist in Boston in 1990.
Rembrandt, Storm on the Sea of Galilee, 1633
Caravaggio, Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence, 1609
Loss Event: Stolen in 1969 in San Lorenzo in Palermo, Sicily
Estimated Value: $20 million
Caravaggio, Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence, 1609
Gustav Klimt, Portrait of a Lady, 1917
Loss Event: Stolen in February 1997 from the Galleria Ricci-Oddi in Piacenza, Italy
Estimated Value: Priceless
Gustav Klimt, Portrait of a Lady, 1917
Jean-Baptiste Oudry, White Duck, 1753
Loss Event: Stolen in 1990 from Houghton Hall in Norfolk, England.
Estimated Value: $8.8 Million
Jean-Baptiste Oudry, White Duck, 1753
Claude Monet, Charing Cross Bridge, 1901
Loss Event: Stolen in October 2012 from the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam. Presumed burnt.
Estimated Value: Priceless
Monet, Charing Cross Bridge, 1901
Pablo Picasso, Pigeon with Peas, 1911
Loss Event: Stolen in May 2010 from the Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
Estimated Value: $28 Million
Picasso, Pigeon with Peas, 1911
Raphael, Portrait of a Young Man, 1514
Loss Event: Plundered by the Nazis in Poland in the 1940’s
Estimated Value: $100 million
Raphael, Portrait of a Young Man, 1514
We’ll wrap with my favorite painter in the world.
Vincent Van Gogh, Vase with Lychnis, 1886
Loss Event: Stolen in August 2010 from the Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil Museum, Cairo, Egypt
Estimated Value: $55 million
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