An 'Indiana Jones of the art world' recovers stolen van Gogh painting

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Dubbed The Netherlands' 'Indiana Jones of the art world', Arthur Brand recovered  Vincent van Gogh's "Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring" three years after it was stolen.

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00:00 It's hard to imagine, but the contents of this bag are worth between 3 and 6 million

00:05 euros.

00:06 It's a Van Gogh painting that was stolen from a museum in the Netherlands three years

00:10 ago.

00:11 The man in this picture is detective Arthur Brand, whom they call the Indiana Jones of

00:16 the art world.

00:17 He managed to recover the piece after he was contacted by a person who had access to it,

00:21 but who says he had nothing to do with the theft.

00:24 It took 1300 days, but here it is and I will hand it over in a few moments to the museum

00:33 director and I think he will be happy.

00:37 The painting dates from the beginning of Van Gogh's career and was stolen from the Singer

00:41 Museum in the city of Laren in March 2020, in the middle of the pandemic when the museum

00:47 was closed.

00:50 Both the perpetrator and the original recipient are now behind bars and the painting has been

00:54 returned to the museum.

00:55 (whooshing)

00:58 (whooshing)

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