"We are angry, shocked and sad," said director general of the Singer museum in Laren, the Netherlands, Evert van Os, at a press conference on Monday, March 30, revealing the theft of the painting. by Vincent Van Gogh "The garden of the presbytery of Nuenen in the spring".

Between one and six million euros

Thieves broke into the glass door of the building on Sunday at around 3 a.m., police said, in order to steal the 1884 work from the museum, located some 30 km from Amsterdam. The Singer Laren Museum, currently closed due to the coronavirus epidemic, is not expected to reopen until July 1.

Estimated at between one and six million euros, according to Dutch media, the painting by the Dutch painter had been loaned to the Singer Laren museum by the Groningen museum in the north of the country, as part of a dedicated exhibition. to Dutch art.

With AFP and Reuters

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