Thieves Steal Painting During Daring Daytime Heist
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Thieves brazenly walk out the door of a Norway museum with one of the world&#39;s most famous paintings -- &quot;The Scream&quot; by Edvard Munch.
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Thieves homed in on two paintings, one by Pablo Picasso and another by Candido Portinari, in the first successful heist in the history of Brazilâs premier modern art museum.
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Swiss media reported Monday that paintings stolen in one of Europe's largest art thefts may have been discovered in a parking lot in front of a Zurich mental hospital.
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OSLO -- Armed, masked thieves burst into a lightly guarded Oslo museum yesterday and snatched the Edvard Munch masterpiece &quot;The Scream&quot; and a second Munch painting from the walls as stunned visitors watched.
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Paintings worth about $91 million were stolen from a Zurich museum in an armed robbery in the second dramatic art theft in the area within days, police said on Monday.
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An Italian Renaissance painting stolen a year ago in Cyprus, possibly a Titian, has been recovered in Bulgaria in a police raid, media reported.
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Art is an exceedingly dumb thing to steal. But then, the art thief, in general, is not the brightest paint in the box.
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An art gallery which lost nine Banksy prints in two burglaries offers another piece by the guerilla artist as a reward.
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OSLO, Norway - The brazen daylight theft of Edvard Munch's renowned masterpiece "The Scream" left Norway's police scrambling for clues and stirred a debate across Europe over how to protect art if thieves are willing to use deadly force to take it.    Some expressed fears that works of art are in increasing danger from violent raids - unless, as Norway's deputy culture minister put it, "we lock them in a mountain bunker."   Armed, masked robbers stormed into Oslo's Munch Museum in broad daylight on Sunday, threatening an employee with a gun and terrifying patrons before they made off with a version of Munch's famous painting "The Scream" and another of his masterpieces, "Madonna."   A day after the theft and despite many tips, police said they have no suspects, no trace of the paintings and no theory on a motive...
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Armed robbers stole a version of "The  Scream" and another masterpiece by Norwegian artist Edvard  Munch Sunday in a bold daytime raid on an Oslo museum packed  with terrified tourists.
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A series of 17th Century paintings worth 10 million euros (Â£7m) are stolen from a Netherlands museum.
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Paintings by Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet worth more than 91 million dollars have been stolen from a museum in Zurich, police said Monday.
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Four paintings by Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet stolen from a Zurich museum are valued at more than 180 million Swiss francs (112 million euros, 164 million dollars), police said Monday.
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Thieves broke into a museum and stole around a dozen glass artworks made by a French master craftsman, worth &#36;3.3 million, police said Wednesday.
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Three gunmen in ski masks and dark clothes burst into a museum just before closing time. After a quick run through the building, they hustled out the door and sped off with paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet valued at $163.2 million.
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Thieves have stolen a 12-kg (26 lb) bar of gold from an art installation by a U.S. artist in Paris, the Fondation Cartier art center said on Friday.
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Thieves broke into Sao Paulo's leading art museum before dawn on Thursday and stole two oil paintings, including one by Pablo Picasso that could be worth some $50 million.