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Record prices for paintings auctioned in the last 22 years:
$2.2 million--”Portrait of Titus,” Rembrandt van Rijn, 3/15/65.
$5.5 million--”Portrait of Juan de Pareja,” Diego Velazquez, 10/27/70.
$7 million--”Juliet and Her Nurse,” J.M.W. Turner, 5/29/80.
$10 million--”Seascape Folkstone,” J.M.W. Turner, 7/5/84.
$10.4 million--”Adoration of the Magi,” Andrea Mantegna, 4/18/85.
$11 million--”Mosnier Street With Road Workers,” Edouard Manet, 12/1/86.
$39.8 million--”Sunflowers,” Vincent van Gogh, 3/30/87.
(Source: Associated Press)
Major U.S. and foreign art thefts/number of objects in 1986:
Churches 164/380
Galleries 104/340
Museums 70/701
Private 192/950
Other 37/169
Unknown 105/216
Total 672/2,686
(Source: International Foundation for Art Research)
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