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A Van Gogh painting, “Poppy Flowers” was stolen from an Egyptian Mahmoud Khalil Museum in August 2010. Again, this was an extremely high value robbery as the painting is worth an estimated $55 million, and has yet to be recovered. A lack of security maintenance is to blame for this robbery as well; a reported 36 of the museum’s 43 security cameras were not functioning the day of the painting’s theft.
This robbery is especially noteworthy because it is not the first time “Poppy Flowers” has been stolen, it was also taken in 1978. Clearly the painting was recovered, but it was a whopping ten years later from an undisclosed location in Kuwait.
The painting is small, measuring 65 x 54 cm, and depicts yellow and red poppy flowers. It is believed that van Gogh painted it in 1887, three years before his suicide. The painting, which is of a vase of yellow and red poppies, contrasted against a dark ground is a reflection of Van Gogh's deep admiration for Adolphe Monticelli, an older painter whose work influenced him when first he saw it in Paris in 1886.