06-04-2021 18:23 via artnews.com

Dutch Man Arrested in Connection with High-Profile Heists of van Gogh, Hals Works

A Dutch man has been arrested in connection with two high-profile art heists that took place in 2020. On Tuesday, members of the police in the Netherlands detained a man at his home in Baarn, a small town the Dutch countryside near Utrecht, on suspicion that he stole highly valued works by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals last year. Those paintings have still not yet been recovered.
The works, van Gogh’s The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring (1884) and Hals’s Two Laughing Boys with
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