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Mathilde Grandjean

‘Very valuable’ bronze sculpture stolen from garden of world-renowned artist

La Promesse, a bronze sculpture worth about £60,000, was stolen from the home of artist Anne Curry in Arkesden, Essex (Essex Police/PA) - (PA Media)

A “very valuable” bronze sculpture worth £60,000 has been stolen from the garden of a world-renowned artist who said she was “upset” at the lack of progress in the investigation.

Anne Curry told the PA news agency she returned home from a funeral service on the evening of December 6 2024 to find that one of her artworks called La Promesse – an imposing bronze sculpture of an iris flower weighing about 350kg – had vanished from her garden in Arkesden, Saffron Walden, Essex.

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