STOLEN: View of the Sea at Scheveningen & Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen
On 7 December 2002, two Van Gogh paintings were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam through a rooftop break-in, disappearing for fourteen years before resurfacing in a Naples drug investigation in September 2016. Two men were convicted of the theft, and the man found in possession of the paintings later admitted to holding them, but the full route the canvases traveled and the identity of whoever brokered their movement between Amsterdam and Naples have never been publicly established.
Anyone with information about the movement of the two paintings between 2002 and 2016 is asked to…
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