A work by artist Jan Schoonhoven, stolen from the Bommel van Dam Museum in Venlo several months ago, has turned up at Sotheby’s, stopping the sale after a Dutch fence confessed to police that he had tried to sell the work.  The 1969 work had already achieved a sale price of â‚¬214,000, sold under a different name and turned 90 degrees in the catalog.  The auction house acknowledged that it had already been investigating the work after buyers became suspicious. (more…)