Our recent interview with Chris Marinello also comes with a little bonus data from Art Loss Register.
Total records on ALR database: 210,533
Works that are currently unaccounted for: 200,839
Works that have been located: 9,694
That’s a big pile. Here is a list of the top ten artists whose work is stolen compiled from data up until the end of 2008. Art Loss Register conducts 300,000 searches each year with 10,000 new losses recorded each year.
Top Ten Stolen Artists in All Media
Pablo Picasso 699
Salvador Dali 396
Joan Miro 390
Marc Chagall 361
Albrecht Durer 212
Pierre-Auguste Renoir 192
Andy Warhol 183
Rembrandt van Rijn 181
Peter Paul Rubens 147
Henri Matisse 138
(More charts after the jump.)