Dutch police are searching for more suspects after armed robbers smashed the display case of a jeweler at a prominent international art fair in the Netherlands.
TEFAF is seen as the world’s top fair for centuries-old art. This year’s event in Maastricht — the first since the fair was forced to close early in March 2020 after an exhibitor tested positive for the coronavirus — drew nearly 250 art dealers from 20 countries to present works spanning thousands of years.a late 15th-century painting by the Venetian painter Vittore Carpaccio, a 13th-century Japanese statue and a mask dating back to at least the 5th century B.C.
This is the first major art heist van Ham has encountered personally after more than 30 years in the business, he said. “This was quite aggressive,” he said.The robbery was “absolutely astounding to me,” said Christopher Marinello, CEO and founder of Art Recovery International, an organization that specializes in the recovery of stolen and looted artworks.
Marinello said he thought at first that the episode was a piece of performance art or act of protest. “But now it seems like we’re talking about some really moronic thieves or some really violent criminals,” he said, adding that the theft was “a major embarrassment for security.”TEFAF Maastricht said in a statement that the fair had been evacuated “due to an incident within the fair” late Tuesday morning.
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