Art Crimes

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£70,000 Reward

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Reward in Lowry work theft hunt. A £70,000 reward has been offered in the hunt for two valuable LS Lowry paintings stolen by an armed gang. The Viaduct and Tanker Entering The Tyne were among five works taken during a raid at an art collector's home in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport. Three men, armed with knives, tied up Ivan Aird and threatened his wife and two-year-old daughter. Police said the community was outraged by their ordeal and hoped the reward would yield new information.

 if you have any information regarding the stolen art work above, please contact your local police department.

$100,000 Reward

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Antonio Stradivarius "Violin, 1714 "Le Maurien" Stolen from New York, New York USA April 9, 2002 

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$100,000 Australian Reward
50,000 Swiss Franc Reward

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Two masterpieces stolen from Zurich museum: Paul Cezanne, "Boy in the Red Vest" 1890. Edgar Degas, "Viscount Lepic and his daughters" 1871
Stolen from the Buehrle Collection Zurich, Switzerland Februray 11,2008

Armed robbers stole two masterpieces – a Degas, a Cezanne, – from a museum in Zurich, Switzerland on 10 February 2008.

Just before closing time, three masked robbers entered the museum. One of them threatened the people present with a pistol and forced them to the floor, while the two others took the paintings from the exhibition hall.

 if you have any information regarding the stolen art work above, please contact your local police department.  

$100,000 Australian Reward

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Two Rembrandt Etchings: "Self Portrait" "Artist's Mother Reading" Stolen from a private residence in Mount Eliza  Melbourne, Australia December 11, 2003

Works by the great Dutch artist Rembrandt, 17th-century master of the chiaroscuro, are what you would expect to find in Amsterdam, the Uffizi and the Louvre, but in a bedroom in outer suburban Melbourne?
Granted, they were two small etchings - a self-portrait and an image of the artist's mother reading. But someone, it appears, knew of their existence and their alleged worth of at least $700,000 to want to steal them from a Mount Eliza home on Tuesday night.

if you have any information regarding the stolen art work above, please contact your local police department.  

Substantial Reward

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Renoir "Head of a Young Woman - Gabrielle" 1895 Pissaro "Rue de Village" 1871 Missing from a Private Collector En route from Germany to the US in 1938

 These two paintings disappeared in 1938 while being shipped from Germany to the United States.  A substantial reward is being offered for credible information which leads to the safe recovery of the works.

if you have any information regarding the stolen art work above, please contact your local police department.