Police: Hermitage curator offered art
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A senior Russian police officer said Saturday that a late curator, who has been the focus of an investigation into the theft of art from the State Hermitage Museum, had offered to sell some of the stolen items to an antiques dealer.
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A retired lawyer accused of negotiating to sell paintings allegedly stolen by a former client, including a $30 million Cezanne still life, was indicted Thursday.
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The FBI said Monday that it has recovered a 1778 painting by the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya that was stolen as it was being taken to an exhibition earlier this month.
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A painting stolen 20 years ago was found lying in trash along a street, and now it could fetch up to $1 million at auction.
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Norwegian police said Monday that they were working on several tips in their search for two Edvard Munch masterpieces, including a version of "The Scream," after a bold daytime theft from an Oslo museum in front of stunned visitors.
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The SÃ£o Paulo Museum of Art, site of the theft last month of paintings valued at more than $50 million, has been threatened by SÃ£o Paulo state authorities with temporary closing.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - A man on Friday smashed a glass display case and tried to steal an antique silver ladle from Russia's Hermitage Museum, scene of a mass theft of artworks uncovered this year.
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Descendants of two prominent czarist-era art collectors demanded compensation as a major exhibition of Russian art was previewed on Tuesday at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Bloomberg News reported. The descendants, AndrÃ©-Marc Delocque-Fourcaud, grandson of Sergei Shchukin, and Pierre Konowaloff, great-grandson of Ivan Morosov, did not seek the return of paintings. Instead, they asserted a moral right to a portion of the proceeds from the show, to open on Saturday. A spokeswoman for the Russian Federal Agency of Culture and Cinematography declined to comment. Fears of legal claims to some of the 120 works in the show, âFrom Russia: French and Russian Master Paintings 1870-1925 From Moscow and St. Petersburgâ cast doubt over the exhibition for several weeks until Britain satisfied Russia that the paintings, including art by Gauguin, Kandinsky and van Gogh, would be returned after it ends on April 18.
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At least two Picasso paintings, worth a total of nearly $66 million, were stolen from the artist's granddaughter's house in Paris, police said
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A Manhattan art gallery owner has  pleaded guilty to fraud charges in an international art forgery  scheme that spanned 15 years, government officials said on  Monday.
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A painting in the Burrell Collection in Glasgow was looted from its Jewish owners and must be returned.
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Police lawyers continue to examine an art exhibit from a Tyneside gallery amid fears it may breach child pornography laws.
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A physician says this photograph has drawn FBI inquiries.
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The Vatican has come calling for one of the paintings at the Columbia Museum of Art.
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An art broker stands accused of tricking the owner of a Monet painting out of nearly $2m.
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Edvard Munch's masterpiece "The Scream" and another famous painting by the great Norwegian artist were stolen by armed robbers from an Oslo museum, police said.
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Take it to your mountaintop fortress, pop open some Chateau Lafite and hang it next to your other stolen masterpieces? Whenever a high-profile art theft occurs, rumors circulate that a scandalously rich collector has commissioned the crime.