Recovered Art. Last week we looked at works that went missing and will likely never been seen again. For this Art Wednesday we’ll look at works of art that went missing, but were then later recovered.
Caravaggio, St. Jerome Writing, 1607
Cezanne, The Boy in the Red Vest, 1889
Loss Event: Stolen February 2008 from the Foundation E.G. Bührle, Zürich, Switzerland
Recovered: In Serbia, April 2012
Cezanne, The Boy in the Red Vest, 1889
DaVinci, Mona Lisa, c. 1516
Loss Event: Stolen from the Louvre in 1911
Recovered: In 1913 when the thief attempted to sell it.
DaVinci, Mona Lisa, c. 1516
Degas, Count Lepic and His Daughters, 1870
Loss Event: Stolen February 2008 from the Foundation E.G. Bührle, Zürich, Switzerland
Recovered: In Serbia, April 2012
Degas, Count Lepic and His Daughters, 1870
Degas, The Chorus, 1876
Loss Event: Stolen in 2009 from the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France, as part of a £700,000 art heist. Just think about that for a second. 2009! Musée d'Orsay! How in the world?
Recovered: In Paris, 2018
Degas, The Chorus, 1876
Munch, The Scream, 1893
Loss Event: Stolen twice, once in 1994 from the National Gallery in Oslo; and again in 2004 from the Munch Museum in Oslo.
Recovered: In 1994 and 2006, respectively.
Munch, The Scream, 1893
Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, 1630
Loss Event: Stolen in December 2000 from the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Recovered: Copenhagen, 2005.
Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, 1630
Van Gogh, Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Neunen, 1884. (A very early Van Gogh).
Loss Event: Stolen 2002 from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
Recovered: Naples, September 30, 2016
Van Gogh, Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Neunen, 1884
Last one today. I hope this week’s Art Wednesday has felt a little like a celebration of recovery.
William Kooning, Woman Ochre, 1955
Loss Event: Stolen in 1985 from the University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tuscon
Recovered: 2017
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