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Dutch police have arrested two men on Thursday in connection with the theft of seven bronze statues, including a Rodin Thinker, from the garden of the Singer Laren Museum near Amsterdam a day earlier, the ANP news agency reported.
The police said the statues themselves had not yet been recovered.
The thieves, who smashed through the museum's garden fence with a vehicle Wednesday, left iron statues, indicating they may have been after the bronze statues for their value as metal.
The museum said the statues cannot be on the commercial art market as they are well documented. It did not disclose their value.
The museum is located in the home of US artist and steel heir William Singer (1886-1943).
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