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Man Arrested Over Theft Of Van Gogh and Hals Paintings
The 58-year-old was taken into custody in Baarn in central Holland. He is suspected of stealing works by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals from museums in the towns of Laren and Leerdam.The paintings have yet to be recovered. Frans Hals’s Two Laughing Boys with a Mug of Beer is valued at €15m (£13m; $17.5m).
Van Gogh’s painting known as ‘Spring Garden’, or Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring, a loan to the gallery was taken during a break-in at the Singer Museum in Laren, near Baarn, in March last year.
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FILE – This image released by the Gronninger Museum on Monday March 30, 2020, shows Dutch master Vincent van Gogh’s painting titled “The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring” which was stolen from the Singer Museum in Laren, Netherlands, Monday March 30, 2020. (Groninger Museum via AP Photo, File)
(AFP) Dutch police arrested a 58-year-old man Tuesday on suspicion of stealing two paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals from small museums, saying it brought them closer to recovering both masterworks.
The man was held at his home in the central town of Baarn over last year’s thefts of van Gogh’s 1884 work “Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring”, and 17th century painter Hals’s “Two Laughing Boys”.