The thieves got tired of looking at it, and returned it, like a library book. Or, more likely, they found it difficult to fence and sell.
Tommy Crown?
Van go pretty fast to pull that off!
Except now it is signed by Hunter Biden and the museum had fk buy it back from him and the big guy for Millions.
The Fence must have spoken to an ‘ear’
I have never understood why the world reveres van Gogh. And please don’t say “his wonderful use of color.” Sorry. Crude primaries are the tools of children. I think people are just afraid to be thought ignorant and uncultured if they tell the truth. Velasquez, Rembrandt, Sargent, Gainsborough, Vermeer, so many others (in fact the student body of most of todays good ateliers) are vastly superior.