The Most Valuable Items Stolen In This Year
The gold-plated shopping basket sculpture worth $16,000 (£12.4k)
This glitzy gold-plated sculpture shaped like a shopping basket filled with silvered cans and bottles was swiped from a midtown art gallery in New York in April. An audacious thief was caught on video surveillance wandering out of Galeries Bartoux on Central Park South in broad daylight, casually holding the artwork in his arms. Thanks to the footage, the perpetrator was apprehended and the artwork by French artist Fred Allard was recovered.
