Detective Arthur Brand, the ‘Indiana Jones of the Art World’: ‘You Don’t Find Stolen Art at the Salvation Army, You Have to Talk to Criminals’
The media calls him the ‘Indiana Jones of the Art World’, police and criminals have a less flattering description: they call him an idiot.
Be as it may, art detective Arthur Brand gets things done. From his modest apartment in east Amsterdam, he has just helped recover a stolen Vincent van Gogh painting, worth more than six million dollars.
‘Spring Garden, The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring’, by Van Gogh.
The classic picture, called Spring Garden, The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring, was delivered wrapped in a bloody pillowcase, inside an IKEA bag.
It was delivered by a criminal, a person uninvolved with the theft who had been granted ‘amnesty’ to return the piece.
