Stolen Van Gogh Returned In IKEA Bag Displayed Again barrons.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from barrons.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The 1884 Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring , worth up to six million euros ($6.8 million), was unveiled to media at a Rotterdam museum, with damage from the theft still visible.
Van Gogh’s “The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring,” which was painted in 1884, was snatched in an overnight raid in March 2020 from The Singer Laren museum east of Amsterdam. It was there on loan from the Groninger Museum.
Stolen Van Gogh painting is returned in a bloody pillowcase inside an Ikea bag adn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from adn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The painting depicts Van Gogh's hometown in 1884, a very classical oil. A canvas estimated between 1 and 6 million euros was returned in an Ikea bag protected by a pillow. The thief was arrested a year later and sentenced to eight years in prison. The buyer, a drug dealer, was sentenced to twelve years, but there was no news of the painting. It is a new trophy to the palmares of Arthur Brand who has already found a Picasso, a ring of Oscar Wilde and Hitler's horses.