DETROIT (AP) – A Detroit museum displaying a 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh as part of a showing of 80 of his works said it shouldn’t be pulled into a dispute over ownership of the multimillion-dollar artwork.
Judge tells Detroit museum: Don’t move van Gogh painting
DETROIT (AP) – On Jan. 11, a judge ordered a Detroit museum to hold onto an 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh in response to a lawsuit by its owner, who claims it has been missing for nearly six years. The painting, titled The Novel Reader or The Reading Lady, is part of a rare van Gogh exhibit, which ends Jan. 22 at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Climate protesters throw soup on Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’
LONDON (AP) – Climate protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers in London’s National Gallery on October 14 to protest fossil fuel extraction.
Van Gogh self-portrait found hidden behind another painting
LONDON (AP) – A previously unknown self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh has been discovered behind another of the artist’s paintings, the National Galleries of Scotland said July 14. The self-portrait was found on the back of Van Gogh’s Head of a Peasant Woman when experts at the Edinburgh gallery took an X-ray of the canvas ahead of an upcoming exhibition.
Alleged mobster linked to Van Goghs is held in Dubai
ROME (AP) – One of Italy’s most wanted men, an alleged top drug trafficker suspected of having bought two stolen Van Gogh paintings on the black market, has been arrested in Dubai, Naples-based police said August 19.
Dutch police make arrest in thefts of Van Gogh, Hals works
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Dutch police arrested a suspect Tuesday in the theft last year of two valuable paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals from different museums, a spokeswoman said. The paintings, however, remain missing.