A Dutch art detective has helped recover a missing Vincent van Gogh painting that was stolen from the Singer Laren Museum, east of Amsterdam, in March 2020.
The “Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring,” painted in 1884, was stolen from the famous Dutch museum in a daring overnight smash-and-grab heist during the coronavirus lockdown. The painting, estimated to be worth between about $3.2 million to $6.4 million — was handed to Brand by an unnamed man in a blue Ikea bag at his Amsterdam home, he said.
“So here it is! The Spring Garden by Vincent van Gogh which was stolen three and a half years ago on Van Gogh’s birthday from a museum in the Netherlands. We have searched for it for more than three and a half years,” he said.