Thousands of artists’ masterworks, their cultural significance beyond measure, have been stolen from public view. Each disappearance from museums around the world represents an incalculable loss — often a permanent one. Stolen is an art monograph like no other: a poignant, intriguing and visually splendid gallery of the missing. Two hundred of the world’s most important stolen masterpieces — paintings, sculptures and other artifacts by artists such as Rembrandt, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso — are assembled here. The art is accompanied by fascinating essays that describe each work’s significance and recount the riveting story of its theft.

JONATHAN WEBB is an award-winning journalist, novelist, and editor with a particular fascination for the behind-the-scenes machinations of the art world. His research while writing Stolen took him to the galleries of London and New York, and into the backrooms of the detectives and operatives who search out and recover lost works of art.

JULIAN RADCLIFFE is chairman of the London-based Art Loss Register, an organization that assists in art recovery around the world.