A painting from Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent Willem van Gogh was stolen from a museum in the Netherlands.
The Singer Laren museum, located east of Amsterdam, said van Gogh’s “Spring Garden” painting was stolen as part of a raid that took place early Monday morning, according to the Associated Press.
The museum had been closed as a cautionary measure to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
The director of the museum, Evert van Os, said the institution is “angry, shocked, sad” because of the theft, which is under investigation by police.
The artwork was on loan from the Groninger Museum in the northern Dutch city of Groningen.
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