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In 2000, Claude Monet's Beach in Pourville was stolen from the National Museum in Poznań, Poland. The police suspected a steal-to-order gang.

Six years later, an unemployed bricklayer was fingerprinted for not paying alimony to his ex-wife. His fingerprints matched those left in the museum, and the police found the painting behind a wardrobe in his apartment. He told the court that he fell in love with the painting when visiting the museum and wanted to have it all to himself[0].

[0] https://kultura.poznan.pl/mim/kultura/en/news/how-did-beach-...

You might be interested in the novel "The Goldfinch". It's pretty relevant to this post, and somewhat relevant to your comment. But it isn't a heist so to speak.

I read it and hated it. What a lot of words for such little plot motion

Reminds me of ‘The Thomas Crowne Affair’