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1993 National Art Museum of Azerbaijan theft information


Women's Bathhouse by Dürer, housed in the National Art Museum of Azerbaijan at the time

In July 1993, a total of 304 items were stolen from the National Art Museum of Azerbaijan in Baku. They included 274 artworks and 30 medieval miniatures.[1] The most valuable of them was Women's Bathhouse by Albrecht Dürer, valued at about $10 million.[2] Other stolen artworks were made by Rembrandt, Anthony van Dyck, Nicolas Poussin, Jacob van Ruisdael and Jean-François Millet, among others.[1][2] The artworks had been smuggled to the United States, from which they were later recovered. In 2001, twelve artworks were returned to their previous place of display, the Kunsthalle Bremen in Germany, while the rest were returned to Azerbaijan.

  1. ^ a b "Кража века. 17 лет спустя. Часть 1". Azadlıq Radiosu (in Russian). Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 17 July 2010. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  2. ^ a b Ralph Blumenthal (19 July 2001). "Twice Stolen, Twice Found: A Case of Art On the Lam". New York Times. Retrieved 5 November 2020.

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