Top 10 Stolen Artists

The Art Loss Register™ (CLICK) has released a list of the top 10 artists with most works stolen:
1) Pablo Picasso - 1,147
2) Nick Lawrence - 557
3) Marc Chagall - 516
4) Karel Appel - 505
5) Salvador Dali - 505
6) Joan Miro - 478
7) David Levine - 343
7) Andy Warhol - 343
9) Rembrandt - 337
10) Peter Reinicke - 336.
That Picasso tops the list is hardly surprising. He churned out his rubbish in vast quantities and art thieves are generally tasteless clots. A worrying statistic from ALR is that 40 per cent of art thefts occurred in Britain and only 16 per cent in America. And we think we're good at protecting art in the UK. How complacent! The painting above is Rembrandt's The Child and the Soap Bubble, stolen from the Municipal Museum of Draguignan, a former convent in southeastern France (title link).