Seven years ago, a group of masked men entered the museum Sheringa Realism in Spanbroek, north of Amsterdam. He threatened with guns drawn visitors, a guard and a receptionist, and stole Adolescents (1941), the only painting by Salvador Dali that existed in a Dutch gallery. A painting that managed to recover two weeks, Arthur Brand, makes specialized in the rescue of works of most famous of that country art detective reported yesterday.
This is the second time the piece is recovered that stole with music (1929), the Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka. And, according to a note from El País, Adolescence, it was stolen from an art gallery in Newport Beach, California, United States, along with 18 other works by Dalí, on 7 June 1984. Eleven months later, on May 24, 1985, recovered in the house of a man named William Hendrinos, whom police arrested on charges of receiving stolen goods and obstruct the investigation.
on the arrival of the painting to the museum Dutch there are two versions: the first, which occurred when in 1990, the site was acquired at the auction house Sotheby’s for $ 208,000; the second, which came from the art fair in Maastricht.
After May 1, 2009, when men stole the painting and escaped in a Volkswagen Golf black, nothing was heard of it, until Arthur Brand began investigating to recover it.
Without paying anything and asking “in the right places, because there is always someone who knows a guy and another, and so on until you give the contact right “it is how he found the painting, said yesterday the detective to a Dutch TV channel.
” I called an individual saying that it had some interesting information. He was in contact with a criminal organization that had obtained both tables (Youth and Music) in a trade, a common practice in that environment. Little did they know is that they were stolen, “he explained.
Eight months of conversation, an intermediary expressed his interest in returning, was how few days ago Arthur Brand regained Dali painting featuring an optical illusion and which is drawn himself of child and his caretaker Lucia.
a few days later, the criminal group gave the work of Lempicka, the artist whose works today are among the best sellers auctions.
“the organization would not be guilty of the destruction or resale of works of art,” he said. It was thus decided to return. And is that as the picture was under the crosshairs of the authorities was impossible to sell on the black market.
Finally, the detective gave the paintings in good condition to a researcher at Scotland Yard, contact the owner legitimate identity of whose works remain unknown, who lent them to the museum, according to AFP.
the works of surrealist painter along with those of artists like Pablo Picasso, are the most stolen. The Nazis, for example, seized some paintings during World War II.
One of the most memorable theft is that of the two balconies (1929) in the House Museum Campo del Cielo, located in river Janeiro, Brazil, along with works by Picasso, Matisse and Monet, in 2006.
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