• The artist, the mafia and the Italian job: is heist mystery about to be solved?

    The artist, the mafia and the Italian job: is heist mystery about to be solved?
    The theft of a vanload of Leon Kossoff’s work haunted the painter for 50 years. Now historians hope some might be recoveredEven after he found fame as one of the most important 20th-century British artists, Leon Kossoff never got over the distress of losing 14 paintings and six drawings in an unsolved theft.A much-loved portrait of his mother was among pictures that were stolen from a lorry transporting them from London to Italy in 1972, with some speculating that the mafia was responsible

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