THE ARCHIVE BY COUNTRY
Published reports from our archive, newest first.
A country may refer to the theft, recovery, return or legal proceedings. A case can be linked to more than one country.
5 reports
Belgian police recovered Pablo Picasso’s Tête and Marc Chagall’s L’homme en prière in an Antwerp basement. Both paintings had been stolen from a private home in Tel Aviv in 2010. Photo of the recovered Picasso: Namur prosecutor’s office via Reuters and The Guardian.
Heirs of Ludwig Marum sought restitution from the Israel Museum, alleging that the illustrated manuscript had been taken from their family. A New York state court dismissed the case on jurisdictional grounds and found the dispute belonged in another forum. Image shows two pages of the manuscript, Google Art Project via Wikimedia Commons.
Museum display after the burglary; Wilfrid Israel Museum / The Art Newspaper Image source ↗
Masked burglars stole 27 works and damaged around ten others, including a Tang sculpture, Thai and Cambodian Buddha sculptures and an Indian Bodhisattva. Police opened an investigation and the permanent gallery closed. Status reflects the original reporting date.
Manuscript folios examined by a conservator, pictured in the Jewish Museum in Prague’s announcement of the returned Kyjov/Gaya Pinkas fragment. Image source ↗
The Jewish Museum in Prague announced the return of a fragment of the Kyjov/Gaya community Pinkas, a manuscript recording the years 1654–1854. The volume was stolen from its archives on 30 January 2007; part appeared in an Israeli auction catalogue in January 2015. The museum identified the folios using copies and microfilm. Czech and Israeli police and INTERPOL assisted the return. Only a fragment, not the complete volume, was returned.
A bronze study of the writer Honoré de Balzac was reported stolen from the museum’s sculpture garden in Jerusalem.
