Dutch law are investigating a dash - and - catch burglary of art by Vincent van Gogh from theSinger Larenmuseum in The Netherlands over the weekend . The museum iscloseduntil June 1 due to concern over the coronavirus .
Vincent van Gogh ’s 1884 oil painting , The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen , was part of an exhibitionand on loanword from the Groninger Museum . Representatives at the Groninger Museumsaythey are “ shocked ” by the news and declined further input as the investigation is on-going . The house painting had been in its collection from 1962 until earlier this twelvemonth .
“ We are deep appalled , angry and sad . A beautiful and moving picture by one of our great artists has been withdrawn from the residential district . It is terrible for the Groninger Museum and also for Singer Laren , but especially for all of us . Because fine art is there to be partake in , to enjoy , to be inspired and to be comfort , especially in time like this . Art is of great grandness to our cultivation , ” say Museum Director Jan Rudolph de Lorm in astatement .
Policesaythey respond after a burglar alarm was spark at 3:15 am . A windowpane was smashed and it appears the culprit made a streak for it . A criminal investigating has started as forensic investigators and artwork robbery experts from the national investigation squad take apart television camera footage and interview potential witnesses . Investigators are acting accord to protocol , said General Manager Evert van Os , adding that museum staff is also coordinating with insurance expert .
The burglary comes during a government - orderednationwide appease - at - home measure currently in place until April 28 . Gatherings that would normally require obtain a permit are ban until June 1 .
It is not instantly known how much the picture might be deserving , but the Associated Pressreportsthat works by van Gogh , when they rarely go on sale , fetch well into the trillion . The “ unco wide ” artwork measures 39 - by-72 centimeters ( 15 - by-28 inches ) and was paint while the infamous lone wolf was populate in a converted laundry way at his parents ’ menage .
The van Gogh museumnotesthat the artist is one of the most famed in the chronicle of westerly graphics , yet only sell one house painting , The Red Vineyard , during his short living . The artist infamouslycut off his own earwhile suffering what he called a “ simple creative person ’s bout of craziness ” during an argument with Paul Gauguin , an artist he was working and living with at the sentence . He then wrapped it in a piece of newspaper publisher and present it to a young woman at a local house of ill repute , signs that conduct to the origin of an as - yet undiagnosed mental illness or “ genial or skittish fever , or madness ” as he call it . In 1890 , van Goghdied by suicideat just 37 years old , leaving behind more than 850 painting and almost 1,300 kit and boodle on theme .
constabulary are call for that anyone who may have information to report it using thepolice lead formor by earphone at 0900 - 8844 .
