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Global Archive of Art Theft, Forgery & Restitution
Explore documented cases of stolen art, art forgery, recovery and restitution worldwide, along with related court disputes. Every report links to its source.
Six countries · a global watch
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Why these six countries? · Data published in 2023
These are the six leading countries in an INTERPOL register snapshot published by a Cornell Data Journal team on 16 December 2023. Counts refer to objects registered as stolen, not theft incidents. This historical snapshot is not a current, comprehensive worldwide ranking.
- France8,133 objects
- Italy7,721 objects
- Turkey3,034 objects
- Iraq2,786 objects
- Belgium2,336 objects
- Netherlands1,756 objects
Published analysis ↗Underlying data table ↗About the INTERPOL register ↗
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- ArgentinaBronze elements stolen from Güemes monument
- AustraliaStolen Ermenegildo Zegna trophy remains missing despite reward
- AustraliaSparkly Bear sculpture stolen with a truck and crane in Brunswick
- AustraliaSir Joseph Banks memorial sculpture stolen from Canberra gardens
- AustriaPolice investigate disappearance of more than 200 Mozart figures in Salzburg
- AustriaErnst Fuchs Museum increases reward for stolen painting
- AustriaErnst Fuchs’s Daphne bronze missing from Vienna exhibition
- AustriaPierre-Auguste Renoir painting stolen from Vienna’s Dorotheum auction house
- BelgiumRenaissance Madonna stolen from a church in Zele
- BelgiumEnsor, Van Dongen and other works stolen from Van Buuren Museum
- BrazilMatisse and Portinari works stolen from library
- BrazilDalí, Matisse, Monet and Picasso works stolen from Rio museum
- CanadaTimothy Schmalz’s bronze figure of Jesus stolen from Surrey school
- CanadaBronze sculpture valued at about C$175,000 stolen in central Waterloo
- CanadaSecwépemc landmark sculpture stolen from Tappen Bluffs
- CanadaThree Maud Lewis painted Christmas cards reported stolen in Halifax
- CanadaBronze statue of St. Teresa of Avila stolen from Ancaster cemetery
- CanadaRichard Forbes bronze horse head stolen from Vancouver gallery
- CanadaJellyfish sculpture stolen from Calgary’s Beakerhead festival
- CanadaJohn Greer’s bronze Feather stolen from Guelph sculpture park
- CanadaSuzor-Coté oil painting stolen from Halifax gallery
- CanadaGolden egg stolen from Salvador Dalí’s Space Venus
- CanadaA.Y. Jackson landscape stolen from Toronto home
- CanadaBanksy’s Trolley Hunters stolen from Toronto exhibition
- CyprusFilippos Giapanis’s Balance stolen from Cyprus sculpture park
- CyprusBronze sparrow stolen again from Yiota Ioannidou’s Paphos sculpture
- EgyptVan Gogh’s Poppy Flowers stolen in Egypt
- FranceSalvador Dalí bronze book cover stolen
- FranceLouvre jewels added to INTERPOL stolen art database
- FranceThe theft of five masterpieces from the Musée d’Art moderne de Paris
- FranceFernando Botero's Maternity stolen from a Paris gallery
- FranceChinese and Thai artworks stolen from Fontainebleau palace
- FranceA red Picasso sketchbook disappears from the Paris museum
- FrancePicasso paintings stolen from granddaughter’s home
- GermanyLife-size bronze of a seated woman stolen from an Essen cemetery
- GermanyWooden wild boar sculpture stolen from Werl playground
- GermanyHans Arp bronze reported stolen at Art Cologne
- GermanyPolice seek Ernst Sauer’s stolen bronze Der Liegende
- GermanyLife-size bronze woman stolen from a Duisburg family grave
- GermanyPolice seek untitled Elfi Frauendorf work stolen in Berlin
- GermanyPainting of golfers stolen in Berlin burglary
- GermanyIris Ulbricht’s Murmel stolen from Berlin exhibition
- GermanyBronze Pine figure reported stolen in Pirna
- GermanyOil painting stolen from an office in Berlin-Steglitz
- GermanyTwo de Belsunce portraits stolen in Berlin
- GermanyBronze angel sculpture stolen from Rostock cemetery
- GermanyLunita July Dorn painting stolen during Berlin opening
- GermanyRuthild Hahne bronze head stolen in Berlin
- GermanySeven Jean-Noel Schramm watercolours stolen from Berlin hospital
- GermanyNine Itamar Zion Yehiel embroideries stolen in Berlin
- GermanyOil painting of a monk with a jug stolen in Berlin
- GermanyHeinrich Martens bronze girl stolen from Monheim civic centre
- GermanyNeureuther’s 1827 view of Munich stolen from storage
- GermanyCharles Fazzino porcelain apple stolen from a Hamburg gallery
- GermanyErik van Lieshout and Andy Hope 1930 paintings stolen in Berlin
- GermanyBalthasar Lobo’s Mutter mit Kind stolen in Berlin foundry burglary
- GermanyRoland Lindner bronze heron stolen from a Berlin-Frohnau garden
- GermanyTwo Dave the Chimp drawings stolen from Berlin exhibition
- GermanyFrau am Fluss bronze stolen from Duisburg’s Goerdeler Park
- GermanySix sculptures stolen from Bochum’s Stadtpark
- GermanyReinhold Böltzig’s Reifenwerferin stolen from former embassy grounds
- GermanyElena Panknin bronze sculpture stolen during Berlin exhibition opening
- GermanyHeavy bronze seal sculpture stolen from Wilhelmshaven storage yard
- GermanyRichie Culver’s Contemplation stolen from a Berlin auction house
- GermanyLore Plietzsch’s flute-playing children bronze stolen in Berlin
- GermanyPaul van Hoeydonck’s Man in Space stolen from Berlin gallery
- GermanyWilliam N. Copley work stolen from Berlin-Mitte gallery
- GermanyTwo Bruno Bielefeld paintings sought after Berlin residential theft
- GermanyGhada Amer ceramic sculpture taken from a Berlin gallery
- GermanyPolice seek witnesses after Dresden’s Green Vault jewel theft
- GermanyReward campaign seeks Lucian Freud’s stolen Francis Bacon portrait
- Israel27 artworks stolen from the Wilfrid Israel Museum
- IsraelRodin bronze stolen from the Israel Museum
- ItalyFour Renaissance artworks stolen from museum in Messina
- ItalyRenoir, Cézanne and Matisse paintings stolen from private museum
- ItalyThieves take a decoy after police safeguard a Brueghel Crucifixion
- JapanTwo bronze statues stolen from a Tokyo public park
- NetherlandsTwo Andy Warhol prints stolen from gallery
- NetherlandsFrans Hals’s Two Laughing Boys stolen again
- NetherlandsVan Gogh painting stolen from Singer Laren
- NetherlandsSeven works stolen from Kunsthal Rotterdam
- New ZealandKarin de Beer's Tiori Toru stolen from Whangārei's Hundertwasser Art Centre
- New ZealandPrivate reward offered after Harawene dog sculpture theft
- New ZealandTwo Gottfried Lindauer portraits stolen in Auckland gallery ram raid
- South AfricaReward advertised for paintings stolen in Pretoria hijacking
- SwedenDalí sculptures and etchings stolen in Stockholm gallery raid
- SwedenRoyal funeral crowns and orb stolen from Strängnäs Cathedral
- SwitzerlandUp to €1 million advertised for paintings stolen in Valais
- SwitzerlandInsurers consider reward for stolen Lausanne-Vidy museum coins
- United KingdomLipton Cup still missing; arrested man released without charge
- United KingdomCourt summons issued after hedgehog statue theft
- United KingdomClare Haggas’s Making Amends stolen at Cheltenham Festival
- United KingdomBronze deer stolen from outside a Lyndhurst property
- United KingdomTeddy Baldock bronze statue stolen from Langdon Park
- United KingdomMore than 600 objects stolen from Bristol Museums storage
- United KingdomNelson Mandela print stolen from Liverpool’s St George’s Hall
- United KingdomBronze Dalmatian sculpture stolen in Sudbury
- United KingdomAnne Curry bronze sculpture stolen from her garden
- United KingdomDorset Police seek paintings stolen from Lyme Regis art studio
- United KingdomHenry the bronze stag stolen from Alison Cork’s London home
- United KingdomLeaping-woman statue stolen from The Grove Hotel grounds
- United KingdomJapanese bronze hawk incense burner stolen from Alton auction house
- United KingdomSarah Księska’s Präparat stolen during London Frieze week
- United KingdomGrayson Perry’s Alien Baby stolen from Bristol’s Hidden Gallery
- United KingdomTwenty lead statues stolen from a Moreton-in-Marsh estate
- United KingdomBronze lion stolen from Born Free outdoor exhibition in Bristol
- United KingdomChrist Church theft: Van Dyck, Carracci and Rosa
- United KingdomTwo Polly Rome bronze sculptures stolen from a Rockbourne home
- United KingdomMaurizio Cattelan’s gold toilet stolen from Blenheim Palace
- United KingdomBronze hare statues stolen from a Goodworth Clatford garden
- United KingdomHenry Moore bronze stolen from Glenkiln Sculpture Park
- United KingdomReward advertised after Barbara Hepworth sculpture theft
- United KingdomOver 100 gold boxes and precious objects stolen from Waddesdon Manor
- United StatesPortland police seek stolen miniature horse figurines after arrest
- United StatesKwan Wu’s bronze figure of an Osage woman stolen in Kansas City
- United StatesJeffrey Laudenslager offers reward after kinetic sculpture theft
- United StatesSix paintings stolen in Dallas during transport
- United StatesSalvador Dalí etching stolen from San Francisco gallery
- United StatesThree Kieron Williamson paintings stolen in Arizona
- United StatesVivienne Scholl photograph stolen from Madrone Art Bar
- United StatesChez Tortoni and the works stolen from the Gardner Museum
- United StatesAnn Pibal’s CBLT taken from New York’s Team Gallery
- United StatesGinny: reward advertised for sculpture stolen in 1980
- United StatesSam Tufnell’s Electric Blueberry gnome stolen from Florida museum
- United StatesSeven Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup I prints stolen from Springfield Art Museum
- United StatesReward doubled for Mother and Child sculpture stolen in Eau Claire
- United StatesFBI appeals for Renoir stolen in Houston armed robbery
- United StatesEleven Warhol portraits stolen from a Los Angeles home
The stories behind the art
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2004Oslo, Norway · Recovered in 2006
Daylight, guns and another Scream
This time there was no ladder and no taunting postcard. Armed men entered an open museum while visitors were inside.
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2005Perry Green, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom · Missing; police believed it destroyed
Two tonnes vanished. The metal was the danger.
The bronze seemed too heavy to steal. A crane made its weight manageable, and its artistic value may not have mattered to the thieves.
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2000Stockholm, Sweden → Copenhagen, Denmark · Recovered and returned
A speedboat, a hotel room and a very small Rembrandt
An armed robbery emptied three spaces in Stockholm. The return took years, several countries and an undercover operation.
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HISTORICAL EDITION · 1933–1945
Art, loss & memory
02 HISTORICAL DOSSIERS
Looting & Restitution
Dispossession, long battles and the paths to restitution.
Explore the casesThe upper strip shows details of the featured artworks; the lower strip uses World War II archive photographs as historical context.
Art Wanted · Rewards
87 entries · 88 documented offers · terms apply
Newest additions first · up to ten entries in each group.
Officially advertised offers 59
Official sources checked; terms apply.
Jan Brueghel the Elder · A Garland of Flowers Surrounding a Picture of FloraUp to$15,000Monuments Men and Women FoundationEnds: 2026-12-31
Jan Brueghel the Elder · Still Life with FlowersUp to$7,500Monuments Men and Women FoundationEnds: 2026-12-31
Canaletto · The Riva degli Schiavoni in VeniceUp to$7,500Monuments Men and Women FoundationEnds: 2026-12-31
Caravaggio · Portrait of a Young Woman (Fillide Melandroni)Up to$20,000Monuments Men and Women FoundationEnds: 2026-12-31
Annibale Carracci · Self-PortraitUp to$2,500Monuments Men and Women FoundationEnds: 2026-12-31
Cima da Conegliano · Virgin and ChildUp to$2,500Monuments Men and Women FoundationEnds: 2026-12-31
Lovis Corinth · Tyrolean with CatUp to$2,500Monuments Men and Women FoundationEnds: 2026-12-31
Gustave Courbet · The WaveUp to$15,000Monuments Men and Women FoundationEnds: 2026-12-31
Lucas Cranach the Elder · Saint GeorgeUp to$7,500Monuments Men and Women FoundationEnds: 2026-12-31
Aelbert Cuyp · Spring Landscape with PoolUp to$2,500Monuments Men and Women FoundationEnds: 2026-12-31
10 of 59 entries · see the full list for the rest.
Published offers · current validity unconfirmed 18
Amounts reported by the cited sources, without confirmation that the offers remain valid.
Heinrich Martens’s bronze girl with a ballUp to€5,000Validity unconfirmed
LeRoy Neiman — Oscar de la Hoya – Shane MosleyAdvertised reward$5,000Centaur Art GalleriesValidity unconfirmed
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts — 1972 theftAdvertised rewardAmount not publishedInsurers, according to Radio Canada InternationalValidity unconfirmed
Giapanis · BalanceAdvertised reward€5,000Validity unconfirmed
Zegna · Gold sheep trophyAdvertised rewardA$15,000Validity unconfirmed
Valais · Chalet theftUp to€1,000,000Validity unconfirmed
Lausanne · Gold coinsUp to€200,000Validity unconfirmed
Ernst Fuchs · ViennaAdvertised reward€30,000Validity unconfirmed
Harawene · RotoruaAdvertised rewardNZ$5,000Validity unconfirmed
Henry · LondonAdvertised reward£1,000Validity unconfirmed
10 of 18 entries · see the full list for the rest.
Archive · recovered works or documented outcomes 10
Historical reward offers; reported returns, recoveries or destruction.
Llew Summers · FlightAdvertised rewardNZ$4,000Archive · see outcome
Amelia Earhart · ReturnedAdvertised rewardCA$25,000Archive · see outcome
Titian · RecoveredAdvertised reward£100,000Archive · see outcome
Picasso · RecoveredAdvertised rewardA$50,000Archive · see outcome
Unkrey · The HammerAdvertised reward$1,000Archive · see outcome
Van Gogh · Two paintingsAdvertised reward€100,000Archive · see outcome
Bührle · RecoveredAdvertised rewardCHF 100,000Archive · see outcome
Goya · Children with a CartUp to$50,000Archive · see outcome
Munch · Two paintingsUp toNOK 2,000,000Archive · see outcome
Cellini · SalieraAdvertised reward€70,000Archive · see outcome
ArtistsAll artists125
85–105 of 764 reports
Italy
Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse paintings stolen from private museum
Three works were taken during a burglary at a private museum. Their recovery is recorded separately in the archive.
One of the objects returned to Peru. Image: FBI. Image source ↗
Washington, D.C., United States; Peru
FBI returns 48 cultural objects to Peru
The FBI handed over 48 objects at the Peruvian embassy after investigations in New Mexico and Nevada. The group included colonial paintings and textiles, ceramics and silver ornaments.
Bronze deer shown in the police appeal / Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary. Image source ↗
Lyndhurst, United Kingdom
Bronze deer stolen from outside a Lyndhurst property
Hampshire Police appealed for information after a bronze deer statue was reported stolen from outside a property on Gosport Lane, Lyndhurst. The reported theft window was 23:00 on 10 March to 08:05 on 11 March 2026. The appeal includes photographs and seeks footage or information about the statue’s whereabouts.
Belgium and United Kingdom
Proposed Michelangelo attribution for the Spirituali Pietà draws a challenge
Michel Draguet proposed that Michelangelo painted the Spirituali Pietà. Art historian David Ekserdjian disputed that attribution, leaving the authorship contested.
The Hague, Netherlands
Return advised for objects from the Van Leeuwen dealerships
The Dutch committee linked sixteen objects or groups to the businesses of Abraham and Alexander van Leeuwen. Its advice specifies that one inventory item should be returned once it is located.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Rijksmuseum researchers reattribute a 1633 painting to Rembrandt
After two years of research, the Rijksmuseum attributed Vision of Zacharias in the Temple to Rembrandt. The painting had fallen out of the accepted body of his work in 1960 and re-emerged from a private collection.
Paris, France
Mexico launches legal action over 40 objects in Millon’s Paris sale
Mexico said it had launched legal action to halt a Millon auction scheduled for February 27. The country’s National Institute of Anthropology and History determined that 40 advertised objects were protected under Mexican law. The case concerns the sale Les Empires de Lumière. Image: Millon’s auction catalogue.
Leiden, Netherlands
Possible self-portrait by Master I.S. resurfaces for Leiden exhibition
After a 2024 public appeal, a private collector lent Young Man with a High Fur Hat and Gorget (1638) to Museum De Lakenhal. The painting had previously been in the Getty collection and was last sold in 2016. Researchers regard the sitter as a possible self-portrait of the anonymous Master I.S.
Teddy Baldock statue before the theft / Metropolitan Police, media-use image. Image source ↗
London, United Kingdom
Teddy Baldock bronze statue stolen from Langdon Park
The Metropolitan Police appealed after the Teddy Baldock monument was stolen from Langdon Park, Poplar, on 1 February 2026. CCTV showed four masked suspects loosening the bronze from its plinth and carrying it away in a three-wheel cargo bike. The dated appeal reports an investigation, not an arrest or recovery.
Recovered knife and beaded sheath. Image: U.S. Department of Justice. Image source ↗
Great Falls, United States
Two historic objects recovered after theft from a Montana museum display
Investigators recovered an antique pistol and a knife in a beaded sheath after their 2024 theft from the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center. The defendant pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nine months in prison in February 2026.
S.W. Associates reward advertisement reproduced by Watson from Le Nouvelliste, 13 January 2026. The artworks were not publicly identified. Image source ↗
Upper Valais, Switzerland
Up to €1 million advertised for paintings stolen in Valais
Watson reported an S.W. Associates advertisement offering up to €1 million for paintings stolen from a chalet on 26 September 2025. Artists and works were undisclosed; current validity is unconfirmed.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
One Jackson Pollock work still missing after 1973 Cambridge theft
The Washington Post documented the search for three Pollock works stolen from the Isaacs family in 1973. Two had previously been recovered. A federal lead concerning the third work, Painting 1028 (1948), did not lead to its recovery, and it was still missing when the investigation was reported. Image: the recovered Number 7, 1951, National Gallery of Art.
The recovered Etruscan statuette at the Bologna return ceremony; Carabinieri TPC / museum press material. Image source ↗
Bologna, Italy
Stolen Etruscan bronze warrior returned to Bologna museum
Carabinieri returned an Etruscan bronze warrior statuette to Bologna’s Museo Civico Archeologico at a ceremony on 19 December 2025. The museum had reported its theft on 30 October 1963. The object was traced in the United States. This report records its return to the Bologna museum, rather than treating the ceremony as the date of the earlier US restitution.
Gold-coin display at Lausanne-Vidy museum, reproduced in the robbery report. Sipa/AP/Jean-Christophe Bott, via DNA. Image source ↗
Lausanne, Switzerland
Insurers consider reward for stolen Lausanne-Vidy museum coins
After the museum’s 18 November 2025 gold-coin robbery, insurers were reported willing to consider up to €200,000 for recovery information. This was conditional wording, not a confirmed present-day payment promise.
Berlin, Germany
Oil painting stolen from an office in Berlin-Steglitz
Berlin police sought an oil painting in a black frame taken from an office in Steglitz. Photo: Berlin Police.
Bristol, United Kingdom
More than 600 objects stolen from Bristol Museums storage
Avon and Somerset Police appealed for information after a 25 September 2025 burglary at a store holding the British Empire and Commonwealth collection. The missing items included carved ivory, bronze figurines, jewellery and medals. Image: a stolen ivory elephant, via the Museums Association.
São Paulo, Brazil
Matisse and Portinari works stolen from library
Eight works by Henri Matisse and five by Candido Portinari were taken from the Mário de Andrade Library.
Context photograph: Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg. FrDr · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized and cropped for display
European Union
Mio and konektra: originality and copying in furniture design
Two references concerned copyright claims involving furniture and the test for infringement of applied art. The EU court clarified how to assess original expression and its reproduction in a competing object.
New York, United States
Collector sues Sotheby’s over disputed Modigliani buyback
Collector Charles Cahn sued Sotheby’s over Portrait de Léopold Zborowski, which he bought in 2003 as a Modigliani. Cahn alleged that Sotheby’s failed to honour a separate buyback arrangement. Questions about the painting’s attribution also feature in the dispute.
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Nelson Mandela print stolen from Liverpool’s St George’s Hall
A signed, limited-edition print by Nelson Mandela showing bound hands above the word “imprisonment” was removed from its frame in St George’s Hall on 13 October 2025. Merseyside Police later announced an arrest in January 2026. Image: Merseyside Police.
Rome, Italy
Fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript leaf recovered for Rome’s Aracoeli basilica
Carabinieri returned a Virgin and Child miniature stolen in the 1980s. Investigators spotted it on a London auction website and traced it to a Swiss branch of an auction company, which agreed to surrender it. Image of the miniature supplied by Carabinieri and published by The Journal of Cultural Heritage Crime.
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