Over A Hundred Year Old Vincent Van Gogh Painting Worth £5m Stolen Love

The Police reports that a Vincent Van Gogh painting has been stolen from the Dutch museum which is currently closed due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

The museum which has been closed since March 2 in line with national measures to help curb the spread of the Coronavirus.

The painting is estimated to be valued at £5m as valued by art detective Arthur Brandt, was stolen on Monday 30th March 2020, at the Singer Laren Museum as reported by the Dutch Police and its be believed to be a smash-and-grab from the front entrance.

Via Youtube, the director of the museum Jan Rudolph De Lorm held a press conference where he said he was “incredibly pissed off”, that the painting which was on loan from the Groninger Museum was stolen.

De Lorm said: “This is exactly what you don’t want as a museum that has a painting on loan.
“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 was stolen on the day Van Gogh was born 167 years ago. Photo Credit: Getty