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Thieves steal several paintings from Dutch museum housing Picasso and Van Gogh works

A woman looks at pictures of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso taken while he was painting his "Woman's Head" (L) during the Picasso_Duchamp "He was wrong" exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm via AFP

Several paintings of considerable value were stolen from Rotterdam’s Kunsthal museum where works by world-renowned 19th and 20th century artists including Picasso and Van Gogh hang, police said Tuesday. “There was a break-in during the night and a few paintings were taken that represent a considerable sum,” Rotterdam police spokeswoman…

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New book says van Gogh’s death was no suicide

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Did Vincent van Gogh, one of the world’s greatest artists despite having sold just one painting in his short and tortured lifetime, commit suicide in 1890 in a wheat field in northern France? Two American authors are now challenging the theory that the enigmatic post-Impressionist killed himself aged 37, saying…

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Van Gogh’s ‘self-portrait’ actually his brother: study

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THE HAGUE — Art researchers at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum said Tuesday they have “discovered” a work by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh — long thought to have been a self-portrait — was in fact a picture of his younger brother Theo. “According to current opinion, Vincent van Gogh never…

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