As a recent Arts Hub Global feature has discussed, there is nothing new about Art theft.
History is full of examples, including the disappearance in 1911 of what is arguably the most famous painting in the world – the Mona Lisa – and the recent Munch heist.
Important pieces have always been targeted by ingenious art thieves supplying an ever active and enormously lucrative black market where demand for major pieces is in inverse proportion to their scarcity.
