Once Lost Painting Nets $730,000
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A long-lost painting by Swedish master Carl Larsson, tucked away in a private collection in France for more than a century, sold for $730,000 at a Stockholm auction Tuesday.
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In many instances, stolen art masterpieces are recovered almost out of the blue, long after investigators have stopped actively pursuing leads.
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The total worth of the paintings by van Gogh, Monet, Degas and CÃ©zanne is estimated at $163 million.
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OSLO -- The weekly magazine Se og Hoer offered a $14,800 reward yesterday for information leading to the return of two priceless Edvard Munch masterpieces stolen from an Oslo museum over the weekend. The city-owned Munch Museum reopened yesterday, two days after three masked robbers, including at least one with a pistol, snatched ''The Scream&quot; and ''Madonna&quot; and fled in ...
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How to make an extra $730,000 by doing nothing.
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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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The grinning men of "Execution" fetched $6 million at auction late last year, 187 times the price paid seven years ago by a Hong Kong banker for Chinese artist Yue Minjun's oil painting inspired by the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown.
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A 17th century Dutch painting valued at $1.7 million was stolen from an Australian state gallery during viewing hours over the weekend, and police suspect an inside job, officials said Thursday.
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A painting stolen more than 20 years ago was found lying in trash along a street, and now it could fetch up to $1 million at an auction.
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A U.S. grand jury on Thursday indicted a retired Massachusetts lawyer who held a $30 million trove of stolen paintings, including one by French postimpressionist painter Paul Cezanne, for almost 30 years.
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A priceless painting stolen more than a year ago from a private collection has been found on the wall of a Bulgarian gypsy's flat.
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A painting by John Singer Sargent sells for $23.5m (Â£12.1m), setting a new auction record for the artist.
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OAKLAND, Calif. - A woman who auctioned an old painting hoping to get a few thousand dollars toward her daughter's college tuition was stunned when the picture fetched $600,000.
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Art experts think two priceless paintings stolen from a Norway museum might be returned...only if a hefty ransom is paid. They say the ransom on Edvard Munch&#39;s &quot;The Scream&quot; and &quot;Madonna&quot; could be as high as a hundred million dollars.
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DELFT, Netherlands  - An art restorer says he has  solved a centuries-old mystery with the discovery of the studio  of the 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer.
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Five stolen paintings worth about Â£250,000 are found by a pensioner in his loft.
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A painting by surrealist artist Rene Magritte - valued at Â£350,000 - is recovered after being stolen.