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Bookmark or Share- The English Heiress Who Masterminded a Multimillion-Dollar Art Heist ...Fifty years ago, Rose Dugdale stole 19 paintings worth an estimated £8 million, including works by Vermeer, Velázquez and Rubens, from a British aristocrat’s estate. Charged with the 1974 theft...
- Art Crime (Fraud, Looting, Stolen Art) - Art Law Research Guide ...Published since 1977, the Stolen Art Alert contains information on thefts reported by owners and insurance companies to the Art Loss Register, police, the FBI, Interpol, and other organizations. This is a registry of lost or stolen artwork and owned possessions containing over 700,000 records.
- Inside the national gallery of stolen artCreated in 2004, the team’s mandate is to track down and return stolen art. Its origins date back to the US invasion of Iraq when 15,000 artifacts were looted from the National Museum in Baghdad....
- The F.B.I. Has an Art Crime Team. And These Days, It’s Busy.A raid of the Orlando Museum of Art, in which 25 works attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat were seized, has placed renewed spotlight on the unit.
- Art theft - WikipediaArt theft, sometimes called artnapping, is the stealing of paintings, sculptures, or other forms of visual art from galleries, museums or other public and private locations. Stolen art is often resold or used by criminals as collateral to secure loans. [1]
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