150-kilogram Salvador Dalí cover stolen from a museum in France
On the night of October 5, a unique "Book of the Apocalypse," valued at several million euros, was stolen from the Centre for Contemporary Art in the French city of Issoire, BFMTV reports .
Initially, it was reported that the entire 210-kilogram exhibit had disappeared from the museum. However, the prosecutor's office in its statement only mentioned the 150-kilogram bronze cover by Salvador Dalí. It is currently unknown whether the rest of the book was also stolen.
The mayor of Issoire called the damage from the theft inestimable. The circumstances of the crime have not yet been disclosed, and the prosecutor's office has launched an investigation.
The "Book of the Apocalypse" was created between 1958 and 1961 at the initiative of French publisher Joseph Foret. He invited 14 renowned artists and writers to work on it, including Jean Cocteau and Salvador Dalí. Dalí created the bronze cover for the book, adorned with gold and seashells.
In the early 1960s, the book was valued at two million French francs, which corresponds to approximately 305 thousand current euros. In 2003, this copy was acquired by French collector Christian Karoutzos.
This is not the first high-profile theft from a French museum recently. In October 2025, criminals stole French crown jewels worth 88 million euros from the Louvre. In September 2026, four paintings by Renoir were stolen from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer on the French Riviera. Two of them were abandoned by the criminals during their escape.
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