Monday, 27 August 2007

Da Vinci Theft Appeal

Leonardo da Vinci - Madonna With The Yarnwinder (1500-1510)It is exactly four years since Leonardo da Vinci's beautiful Madonna With The Yarnwinder was stolen from Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland, and detectives of Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary have used the anniversary to renew an appeal for information about the robbery. The painting, worth an estimated £30m, has been on the FBI's list of 10 most wanted pieces of stolen art since 2005. Unbelievably, it took the FBI two years to add this masterpiece to its Top Ten! The picture has been in Coxsoft Art's Stolen Art section ever since (CLICK and scroll down). A gang of four men targeted the painting. Clearly this was international robbery-to-order. So the chance of its still being in Scotland is remote. Dubai? New York? Nigeria? The Kremlin?

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