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Van Gogh painting stolen after museum is closed to due to coronavirus

Photo credit: Jasper Juinen - Getty Images
Photo credit: Jasper Juinen - Getty Images

From Harper's BAZAAR

A Van Gogh painting worth £5million has been stolen from a Dutch museum currently closed due to the coronavirus. 'Parsonage Garden at Neunen in Spring' was taken from the Singer Laren museum in Laren, on Sunday, 29 March.

Thieves smashed through the front door of the museum, triggering the alarm, but they had fled with the painting before the police arrived. The artwork was on loan from the Groninger Museum, and was its only Van Gogh.

Singer Laren director, Jan Rudolph de Lorm, said he was “incredibly pissed off” by the theft. The museum has been closed since 12 March in light of coronavirus.

“This is exactly what you don’t want as a museum that has a painting on loan," he said in a press conference.

“A beautiful and moving painting by one of our greatest painters, stolen from the community … This must come back as soon as possible, so that we can enjoy and be comforted by this beautiful art again. Art deserves to be seen and shared by us, the community.”

The painting is part of a series created between 1883 and 1884 when the artist was staying with his parents in Nuenen, where his father was a minister.

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