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Four impressionist works stolen in daylight heist Audacious raid the second in Switzerland in a week (snip) The Boy in the Red Vest by the French master Paul Cézanne was the museum’s most valuable painting. The others – Van Gogh’s Blossoming Chestnut Branches, Claude Monet’s Poppies near Vetheuil and Edgar Degas’s family portrait, the Count … Read more
Clock-watching staff at a leading auction house sparked a terrorist alert when they turned off the lights and locked up for the night. For trapped inside Sotheby’s in the darkness was America’s Ambassador to the UK with his two bodyguards – convinced they were about to come under attack. The envoy, Robert Tuttle, was viewing … Read more
THE robbers who committed one of the world’s biggest art robberies in a Zurich museum drove off with $180 million worth of impressionist paintings sticking out of the boot of their car. The three thieves, wearing dark clothes and ski masks, and brandishing handguns, burst into the gated villa of the Emile Buhrle Foundation, a … Read more
“When I die, my paintings won’t be worth anything, I’ll be forgotten,” Francis Bacon once told a friend. How wrong the artist, who died in 1992, was. One of his canvases was sold last night for £26.34 million, breaking the record for any postwar and contemporary work of art sold in Europe. Read the full … Read more
It’s the most expensive post-war work of art ever to be sold in Europe – £26.3m with commission. Stocks and property are wobbling, credit has evaporated, but in the surreal world of London’s auction houses… Read full story at the Telegraph U.K.