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- That doesn’t make the crime any less impressive, however, for 2015’s heist of five Francis Bacon paintings from an apartment in Madrid has gone down as the largest contemporary art heist in recent Spanish history.
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May 27, 2024 · A portrait by the figurative, Irish-born artist Francis Bacon has been recovered by the Spanish police in Madrid. Stolen from the home of banker José Capelo, along with four other paintings and a safe full of jewels and valuable coins, the work had been missing since 2015. 16 people have been arrested in connection to the crime since the start ...
May 23, 2024 · The five works stolen in July 2015 were worth €25m in total. It is thought to be the biggest theft of contemporary art in Spain. A safe containing jewels and coins was also taken at the time.
- History’s greatest art heist occurs at a Boston museum (1990) Photo : Josh Reynolds, File/AP. In the early morning, on the day after St. Patrick’s Day, thieves entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, subduing guards who were watching the Boston institution’s grounds at night.
- Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre by an Italian handyman (1911) Photo : Via Wikimedia Commons. Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa may be the most well-known artwork in the world—and an art heist is one of the reasons its fame was cemented.
- 'Spider-Man' steals five masterpieces from a Paris museum (2010) Photo : Thibault Camus/AP. The theft of five major works of modern art from Paris’s Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville in 2010 was so slick, it drew comparisons to Arsène Lupin, the fictional thief of French pulp fame, and Spider-Man, whose name became the moniker by which the burglar who committed the heist ended up being known.
- Impressionist masterpieces are taken from a Paris museum as the public looks on (1985) Photo : Francois Mori/AP. The artwork that gave its name to the Impressionist art movement was stolen from Paris’s Musée Marmottan in 1985, in one of the most daring heists ever committed anywhere.
May 23, 2024 · Three of the paintings from one of Spain's biggest art heists were recovered in 2017, one remains missing. The work, worth €5 million, was one of five stolen from a Madrid apartment in 2015.
Mar 14, 2016 · The five paintings have a combined worth of €30 million ($33 million). According to El País, it’s the biggest contemporary art heist to have taken place in Spain in the last few decades.
Mar 14, 2016 · A stately mansion in a quiet residential area of downtown Madrid has been revealed as the setting for the largest contemporary art heist in recent Spanish history. Five paintings by Francis...
Jun 17, 2022 · That doesn’t make the crime any less impressive, however, for 2015’s heist of five Francis Bacon paintings from an apartment in Madrid has gone down as the largest contemporary art heist in recent Spanish history.
