The cases, by artist

Artist dossiers.

Follow the reports, sources and documented developments concerning an artist. Each dossier brings several entries together, keeping a theft distinct from its recovery and an allegation distinct from a conviction.

29 documented dossiers · 125 artists in the archive
Swiss prosecutors seize disputed Modigliani after Panama Papers revelations — artwork or case documentation from the linked image source.

Amedeo Modigliani

4 reports 2016–2025

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Related artwork: Warhol Lenin on museum display; not the stolen trial proof

Andy Warhol

8 reports 2009–2026

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Banksy’s Girl with Balloon displayed in a frame beside a gallery representative.

Banksy

4 reports 2018–2024

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Pissarro’s Darse de pêche et bassin Duquesne, showing the harbour and waterfront.

Camille Pissarro

8 reports 1941–2026

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Colourful works on paper displayed together in the São Paulo recovery report.

Cândido Portinari

4 reports 2008–2026

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Judith and Holofernes, the Toulouse painting with a disputed attribution to Caravaggio.

Caravaggio

3 reports 2010–2019

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Framed Claude Monet landscape shown in the restitution report.

Claude Monet

7 reports 1985–2024

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Recovered Francis Bacon portrait displayed against a Spanish police backdrop.

Francis Bacon

3 reports 2018–2025

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Francisco Goya, The Duke of Wellington, detail — The National Gallery, London.

Francisco Goya

4 reports 2006–2026

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Frans Hals’s Two Laughing Boys with a Mug of Beer, showing the two smiling figures.

Frans Hals

3 reports 2020–2021

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Two Gottfried Lindauer portraits of Māori sitters, returned after their theft.

Gottfried Lindauer

2 reports 2017–2022

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Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of a Lady held up following its identification in Piacenza.

Gustav Klimt

4 reports 1945–2026

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Henri Matisse, Odalisque (1920–21), A795 · Stedelijk Museum / Wikimedia Commons · PDM 1.0

Henri Matisse

9 reports 2006–2026

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Jasper Johns and James Meyer in the studio. Photograph: Hans Namuth, via the cited source.

Jasper Johns

2 reports 2014–2015

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Inigo Philbrick sentenced to seven years in art-finance fraud — artwork or case documentation from the linked image source.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

8 reports 2008–2025

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Artist portrait: Lee U-fan at a 2016 press briefing; Yonhap

Lee U-fan

3 reports 2017–2024

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Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa — historical reproduction, Library of Congress.

Leonardo da Vinci

2 reports 2007–2022

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America by Maurizio Cattelan, pictured in the 2019 AP/ABC7 report.

Maurizio Cattelan

3 reports 2019–2025

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A gendarmerie officer examining framed Picasso prints recovered in the Mougins case.

Pablo Picasso

29 reports 2003–2026

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Officers presenting framed paintings recovered in the Italian investigation.

Paul Cézanne

5 reports 1988–2026

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Paul Signac, Quai de Clichy. Temps gris, 1887 — public-domain reproduction via Wikimedia Commons.

Paul Signac

2 reports 2019

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Pierre Louis Goudreaux, An Amorous Couple / A Loving Glance — the returned painting.

Pierre Louis Goudreaux

2 reports 2019–2020

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Renoir portrait of a seated woman wearing a blue dress and a wide-brimmed hat.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

10 reports 2008–2026

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Rediscovered Rembrandt portraits presented after Rijksmuseum research — artwork or case documentation from the linked image source.

Rembrandt van Rijn

9 reports 2011–2026

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Archival photograph of a man beside the large decorated book cover in the Dalí theft report.

Salvador Dalí

8 reports 2006–2026

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Salvator Rosa’s rocky coastal landscape, returned to Christ Church Picture Gallery.

Salvator Rosa

2 reports 2020–2024

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Van Gogh’s The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring, displayed in an ornate frame.

Vincent van Gogh

17 reports 1950–2026

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Wassily Kandinsky, Bild mit Häusern, 1909 — public-domain reproduction via Wikimedia Commons.

Wassily Kandinsky

2 reports 2020–2022

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Counterfeit artworks sold by Eric Spoutz; FBI

Willem de Kooning

4 reports 2014–2023

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These names open existing archive results. Full dossiers are published when several reports and an editorial overview are available.

Names identify the works or attributions discussed by the sources, not allegations against the artists. Counts refer to reports, including updates to the same incident.