Showing posts with label Romania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romania. Show all posts
April 20, 2024

Christ Church Picture Gallery painting by Baroque painter Salvator Rosa recovered in Romania

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On 19 April 2024 Christ Church,  a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England,  announced the recovery of one of thre...
July 17, 2018

Quotes given by ancient art dealer William Veres outlining Balkan trafficking methods.

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Image Credit:  Screenshot from documentary “The Hunt for Transylvanian Gold.”   In 2008, following a ten-year investigation coordinated...
July 15, 2014

Kunsthal Rotterdam: Romanian court instructs convicted art thieves to repay insurers $26 million for paintings

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Lucian Freud's "Woman with Eyes Closed" (2002) by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor The AFP reported in &...
October 22, 2013

Kunsthal Rotterdam Art Theft: Three defendants plead guilty. Radu Dogaru criticizes museum's security

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Radu Dogaru, Alexandru Bitu and Eugen Darie, pled guilty today in a Bucharest courtroom for their part in the October 16, 2012 theft of se...
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July 28, 2013

Kunsthal Rotterdam Theft: Facebook played a part in Romanian sting operation to identify art thieves

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Andrew Higgins reporting July 26 for The New York Times from Carcaliu, Romania in " A Trail of Masterpieces and a Web of Lies Leadin...
July 25, 2013

Kunsthal Rotterdam Art Theft: The New Yorker blogs on Claim that Mother of Suspect Burned Stolen Paintings from the Triton Foundation

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Now on blog of The New Yorker  writer Betsy Morais has weighed in today with " How to Catch an Art Thief When the Evidence Has Been ...
July 23, 2013

Kunsthal Rotterdam: Mother of Suspected Art Thief Denies Destroying Paintings to Judges in Budapest Court

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The mother of a suspected art thief denied in court that she destroyed paintings stolen from the Kunsthal Rotterdam last October, according...
July 17, 2013

Kunsthal Rotterdam Art Heist: Six People to be tried in Budapest for stealing 18 million Euros of art; DIOCT denies making any conclusions about the destruction of the stolen paintings

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On Monday, July 15, Romanian authorities under the umbrella of "DICOT" will be prosecuting six people in a court in Bucharest fo...

Kunsthal Rotterdam Art Heist: Journalists weigh in on reports of stove ashes evidence that suspects' mother destroyed stolen paintings when a buyer could not be found

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Was this painting destroyed in Romania? Alison Mutler for the Associated Press reported on July 16th in " Romania: Museum checks...
May 31, 2013

Will the ashes in a stove in Romania prove to be the remains of the seven paintings stolen from the Triton Foundation exhibit at the Kunsthal Rotterdam?

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Photograph of the image of the Matisse painting from the Triton Foundation  stolen from the Kunsthal Rotterdam  on October 16, 2012....
April 10, 2013

Louvre closed due to "exceptional circumstances"

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Paris' Louvre at night (Photo by CR Sezgin) The Louvre's website pops up a message today: Due to exceptional circumstances, ...
March 5, 2013

Dutch Police Arrest 19-year-old Romanian woman in connection with the Rotterdam Kunsthal Art Heist

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Matisse painting stolen from Kunsthal Rotterdam Monday March 4 Dutch police arrested a 19-year-old Romanian woman, the girlfriend of o...
January 22, 2013

Organized crime unit of Romanian police arrest three men for Kunsthal Rotterdam theft; no paintings found

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Romanian police arrest three men suspected of robbing Kunsthal Rotterdam last October. Today DutchNews.nl  in its post " Three arr...