In a brash overnight robbery, thieves stole the painting, ‘The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring’ with an estimated value of up to £5m, by Vincent Van Gogh from the Singer Laren museum in the Netherlands early Monday, on what would’ve been the artist’s 167th birthday.
“I feel enormous anger and sadness,” said Jan Rudolph de Lorm, the museum’s director. “Because especially in these dark days that we’re in, I feel so strongly that art is here to comfort us, to inspire us, and to heal us.”
The heist comes as museums in much of Europe and the United States are closed in attempts to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
‘The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring’
Pictures via Getty Images, Reuters
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