The gallery's owner, Mark Peet Visser, said the thieves had attempted to steal all four works from a 1985 series by the US pop artist called Reigning Queens, which features portraits of the then queens of the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark and Swaziland, which is now called Eswatini.
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