In the week of Vincent Van Gogh’s birthday we wish many happy returns to a museum hit by a theft of his work. Raiders smashed through a glass door and, on the 167th anniversary of his birth, took a £5million Van Gogh.
Spring Garden was on loan to the museum in Laren, Holland. Its director Jan Rudolph de Lorm said he was “incredibly p*****d off” over the theft.
Art detective, Arthur Brand, known for finding work stolen by the Nazis, is already on the case. The heist at the museum, closed because of Covid-19, was straightforward.
Unlike other art thefts, which have featured fast boats, exploding cars, Spider-Man, Goldfinger and an ex-pro footballer who couldn’t help but give the game away.
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