Rodin’s The Thinker, along with six other bronze statues, was stolen from the sculpture garden of Singer Laren, The Netherlands on January 17, 2007. (The thieves have stolen the statues because of the high price of bronze!!) A few days later was the statue found. With brutal cuts in the head and one of the upper arms, plus a piece of leg disappeared, The Thinker was heavily damaged. They tried to cut the statue into the smaller (and not recognizable) salable pieces......
Today I visited exhibition "The Thinker Thinks Again" dedicated to process of restoration of the Thinker, in Singer Museum, Laren, The Netherlands. It proved to be a dramatic difficult operation, which took one and half year. A very impressive exhibition showing the long and complicated restoration step by step.
(please excuse the poor photo quality, taken with mobile phone)
More info (in english) here and www.rodindedenker.nl 
