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A painting by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh was taken this morning from the Singer Museum in the Dutch city of Laren , although it was temporarily closed in compliance with official measures against the coronavirus, the gallery confirmed Monday.

The canvas is "Spring Garden" , where the garden of the parish house of Nuenen appears , painted by the Dutch master during that season of the year in 1884, and the painting was a loan from another Dutch art gallery, the Museum Groninger , for a temporary exhibition at this museum dedicated to preserving the collection of the American couple William and Anna Singer.

As the museum's director, Jan Rudolph de Lorm, explained to the press, the thieves entered at dawn this Monday, forcing and breaking the exterior glass door , which allowed them to access the museum and take this valuable Van Gogh, although it has not been Informed if other pieces were stolen.

After the burglar alarm went off , officers went directly to the museum, but neither inside nor in the immediate vicinity was there any trace of the perpetrators of the theft, according to police.

" I am shocked and incredibly angry . It is a blow to the Groninger Museum, to the Singer Museum in Laren and to all of us. The art is there to be enjoyed and shared by all of us," added the director.

In 1883 and 1884 , Van Gogh was living with his parents in Nuenen, where his father was a pastor of the local parish, and so the Dutch artist painted the garden of the vicarage , a place that offered him the peace and inspiration he needed, as reported in his letters.

Dutch authorities, with a team of forensics, detectives, and stolen art experts, have launched a criminal investigation to try to locate the thieves and return the painting to its owners, police confirmed in a statement.

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