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The Concert (1664) by Johannes Vermeer
Stolen in 1990 from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, unrecovered.
Poppy Flowers (1887) by Vincent van Gogh
Stolen in 2010 from the Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Cairo, unrecovered.
View of Auvers-sur-Oise (1890) by Paul Cézanne
Stolen in 2000 from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, unrecovered.
Duchess of Devonshire (1778) by Thomas Gainsborough
Stolen in 1876 from Agnew's Gallery in London and recovered in 1901.
Madonna of the Yarnwinder (1501) by Leonardo da Vinci
Stolen in 2003 from Drumlanrig Castle, Scotland and recovered in 2007.
The Taking of Christ (c. 1602) by Caravaggio
Believed lost but was rediscovered in 1990 in a Jesuit residence in Dublin.
Portrait of Francis Bacon (1962) by Lucian Freud
Stolen in 1988 from a gallery in Berlin, unrecovered.
Le Pigeon aux Petits Pois (1911) by Pablo Picasso
Stolen in 2010 from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, unrecovered.
The Boy in the Red Vest (1888-90) by Paul Cézanne
Stolen in 2008 from the Foundation E.G. Bührle in Zurich, recovered in Serbia in 2012.
Landscape with Cottages (c. 1603-1605) by Rembrandt
Stolen in 1972 from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, unrecovered.
The Scream (1893) by Edvard Munch
Stolen in 1994 from the National Gallery in Oslo, Norway and recovered later that year.
Charing Cross Bridge, London (1901) by Claude Monet
Stolen in 2000 from the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, recovered in 2004.
Wheatfield with Crows (1890) by Vincent van Gogh
Recovered after being stolen in 2002 from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633) by Rembrandt
Stolen in 1990 from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, unrecovered.
Portrait of a Lady (1917) by Gustav Klimt
Stolen in 1997 from the Ricci Oddi Gallery in Italy, discovered in the gallery's walls in 2019.
Natasha's Dance/Woman in Blue Reading a Letter (1881) by Vincent van Gogh
Stolen in 2002 from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and recovered in 2016 in Italy.
Flag (1954-55) by Jasper Johns
Stolen in 1965 from a gallery in New York, recovered in 1967.
The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (1432) by Jan van Eyck
Stolen during World War II by the Nazis, later recovered by Allied forces.
The Just Judges (1432) by Jan van Eyck
Stolen in 1934 from Saint Bavo Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium, still missing.
Guernica (1937) by Pablo Picasso
Never stolen but subject to attempted theft and vandalism; it's heavily guarded.
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