Armed robbers likely damaged two works they got away with, while leaving two more on the sidewalk. The stolen prints are less valuable than drawings or paintings but still “worth a considerable sum,”
Armed robbers likely damaged two works they got away with, while leaving two more on the sidewalk. The stolen prints are less valuable than drawings or paintings but still “worth a considerable sum,” the owner said.
Queen Elizabeth II of England was one of the images stolen — but Queens Beatrix of the Netherlands and Ntfombi Twala of Eswatini were left behind as they didn’t fit inside the getaway vehicleImage: Peter Dejong/AP/picture alliance
Art robbers have made off with two Andy Warhol silkscreen prints from his “Reigning Queens” series according to Mark Peet Visser, owner of MPV Gallery in Oisterwijk, Netherlands.
Visser said surveillance footage showed armed men using heavy explosives to blast their way into his gallery, as well as the robbers abandoning two other works which they were unable to fit into their getaway car.
The works the thieves successfully absconded with were portraits of England’s Queen Elizabeth II and Denmark’s Queen Margarethe II. Both works on paper are believed to have been damaged when broken out of their frames.
Two of Warhol’s ‘Reigning Queens’ were made off with, one was Margarethe
Portraits of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Queen Ntfombi Twala of Eswatini were left on the sidewalk outside the gallery.
Warhol, a US Pop Art giant, created the Reigning Queens series in 1985, two years before he died.
