'Amateurish' thieves steal Warhol print of the Queen - but 'can't fit other stolen pictures in getaway car'

"Amateurish" thieves person made disconnected with a surface people of Queen Elizabeth II by Andy Warhol arsenic portion of a botched assemblage heist successful the Netherlands.

The thieves blew unfastened the assemblage doors, stealing 2 works from the iconic American popular artist, the gallery's proprietor Mark Peet Visser said.

Another 2 prints were near severely damaged successful the thoroughfare aft the thieves discovered they wouldn't acceptable successful the getaway car, helium added.

The heist was captured connected information cameras, Mr Visser said, describing the full happening arsenic "amateurish".

The assemblage proprietor said "the weaponry onslaught was truthful convulsive that my full gathering was destroyed" and adjacent stores were besides damaged.

"So they did that portion of it well, excessively good actually," helium added.

"And past they ran to the car with the prints and it turns retired that they won't acceptable successful the car.

"At that infinitesimal the works are ripped retired of the frames and you besides cognize that they are damaged beyond repair, due to the fact that it is intolerable to get them retired undamaged."

The thieves struck the MPV Gallery successful the Dutch municipality of Oisterwijk aboriginal connected Friday.

Mr Visser said they were attempting to bargain 4 works from a 1985 Warhol bid called Reigning Queens.

The bid featured portraits of the past queens of the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark and Swaziland, which is present called Eswatini.

The thieves got distant with the portraits of Queen Elizabeth II and Margrethe II of Denmark, Mr Visser said.

But the prints of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Ntombi Tfwala, who is present known arsenic the queen parent of Eswatini, were abandoned.

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Mr Visser has not enactment a worth connected the signed and numbered works, which were owed to spell connected merchantability arsenic portion of an creation just aboriginal this month.

Forensic experts person scoured the severely damaged assemblage and Dutch constabulary are appealing for witnesses.