"Search for the World's Most Wanted Art" COPYRIGHT © 1998 - 2006  SAZ PRODUCTIONS, INC.  We are seeking information about these cases: 2003's Most Wanted Art December 17, 2003 Santa Fe, NM (USA): A Georgia O'Keefe painting "Pablo Duro Canyon Landscape" (Special # 21) was lifted from the New Mexico State Fine Arts Museum. August 27, 2003 Scotland, UK: Leonardo Da Vinci's "Madonna with Infant Holding a Yarnwinder" was lifted by thieves from the Duke of Buccleuch's Drumlanrig Castle.  For details see the FBI  Reward £1,000,000 May 11, 2003 Vienna, Austria: RECOVERED 1/21/06 Cellini's golden salt cellar "Saliera" was stolen from Vienna's Art History Museum. For details see BMI or FBI: Reward 70,000 Euro April 27, 2003 Manchester, UK:  RECOVERED 4/28/03 Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Picasso were briefly taken from the Whitmore Art Gallery. see BBC April 11, 2003 Baghdad, Iraq:  The National Museum was looted!  An extraordinary collection of near eastern artifacts was stolen.  For information see The Lost Treasures From Iraq March 20, 2003 Ghent, Belgium:  Fifty icons were stolen from a gallery. January 2003 Caracas Venezuela:  A Matisse painting "Odalisque in Red Pants" in the Sofia Imber Contemporary Art Museum was discovered to be a forgery.  The original painting had been on tour several years ago but the painting currently in the museum's possession is a fake. 2002's Most Wanted Art December 29, 2002 Naples Florida, USA: RECOVERED 2/12/03 Two impressionist paintings by Monet and Renoir were stolen from a private beachfront home. December 7, 2002 Amsterdam, Netherlands: Two paintings by Van Gogh were stolen from the Vincent Van Gogh Museum. Reward: 100,000 Euro October 24, 2002 France: Paintings by Renoir, Marquet, and two by Degas were stolen according to the French Police.(navigation required) September 29, 2002 County Wicklow, Ireland: RECOVERED 12/10/02 Thieves stole five valuable paintings by the artists Rubens, Van Ostedt, Van Ruysdale, & Van de Velde. September 20, 2002 Medillen, Colombia: RECOVERED 10/8/02 Two Fernando Botero paintings were stolen from a museum. July 30, 2002 Asuncion, Paraguay: Thieves tunneled their way into the National Fine Arts Museum and stole paintings by Courbert, Tintoretto, Murillo, Piot and an unknown Italian artist.  (In Spanish w/ pictures see BBC) July 29, 2002 West Hollywood, CA USA: Two Maxfield Parrish mural panels were stolen. July 3, 2002 Johannesburg, South Aftica: "St Thomas" by the El Greco studio was taken from the Johannesburg Art Gallery. June 3, 2002 Hamburg, Germany: A Giacometti sculpture was stolen and replaced with a copy. May 9, 2002 Île-de-France, France: RECOVERED 11/4/03 Works by Cezanne, Dufy, Freisz, and others were stolen as published by Gazette-Drouot. April 20, 2002 Berlin, Germany: RECOVERED 5/18/02 Break in at the Brückemuseum resulting in the loss of nine German expressionist paintings by Heckel, Nolde, Kirchner & Pechstein. For an article  in English see BBC; for pictures of the stolen works see Berlin Polizei. March 25, 2002 Haarlem, Netherlands: Theft at the Frans Hals Museum.  The five stolen paintings including works by Jan Steen, Adriaan van Ostade, Cornelis Bega, and Cornelis Dusart see BBC February 17, 2002 Stockholm, Sweden: Five paintings were stolen from an art fair including works by Jan Breughel the Elder, Anders Zorn, and Bruno Liljefors. Reward: 110,000 Euro 2001's Most Wanted Art December 10, 2001 Turin, Italy: RECOVERED 6/15/05 Theft of a Goya (attrib.) "Count Ugolino della Gherardesca" see picture October 10, 2001 Tashkent, Uzbeckistan: RECOVERED 1/17/02 Russian Collection from the Uzbeck State Museum: Ayvazovskiy's "Sunsets in the Steppe", Tropinin's "Princess Obolenskaya", Bryulov's "A Turkish Woman",Kramskoy's "A Girl withRed Bow" and Surikov's sketch for the painting "Morning of the Execution of the Streltsy. September 9, 2001 Vergia, Greece:  Tomb robbery - marble statuettes adorning the thrown of Queen Euridice (Alexander the Great's Grandmother). August 8, 2001 Madrid, Spain: RECOVERED 6/21/02 Fourteen paintings were stolen including works by Brueghel, Goya, Pissarro, Gris, Camarasa, Foujita, Solana, Sorolla,Ortiz & Nonell. July 18, 2001 Cologne, Germany: Andy Warhol RECOVERED "Lenin in Blue" June 26, 2001 County Wicklow, Ireland: RECOVERED 9/28/02 Gainsborough & Belloto June 13, 2001 Ghent, Belgium:  Stolen Rubens (a copy) June 8, 2001 New York City, NY USA: RECOVERED 1/23/02 Chagall Theft May 19, 2001 Innsbruck, Austria: DESTROYED painting by Dou April 22, 2001 Lucerne, Switzerland Van Goyen March 22, 2001 St. Petersburg, Russia:RECOVERED Gerome Theft 2000's Most Wanted Art December 21, 2000 Stockholm, Sweden: RECOVERED Rembrandt & Renoirs Sept. 19, 2000 Posen, Poland: Monet Theft June 20, 2000 Stockholm, Sweden: Zorn, Liljefors, & Nelson May 28, 2000 Beverly Hills, CA USA: Two Chagalls April 2, 2000  Florence, Italy: RECOVERY 7/27/01 Donatello, Simone Martini, & Giotto February 24, 2000 Netherlands: RECOVERED 7/16/00  Helmantal January 20, 2000 United Kingdom: RECOVERED 5/18/00 Lowry Theft January 1, 2000 United Kingdom:  Cezanne Theft 1999's Most Wanted Art Other 20th century art thefts (listings in French) see link For more information see our Stolen Art Directory. 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