Art thefts: an ugly blot on life&#39;s canvas
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Who can deny some fascination with the art heist? If you could, then movies and books that use this sort of crime as a plot device wouldn&#39;t be so plentiful and so popular.
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Armed robbers on Sunday stole a version of  Norwegian artist Edvard Munch's "The Scream," regarded by many  as his most important work and an icon of existentialist angst,  from an Oslo museum.
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Two of the four paintings stolen in one of the world's largest art thefts have been recovered in an abandoned car
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By DAISY NGUYEN LOS ANGELES - Norman Rockwell paintings often resonate because of their depictions of everyday life, but the life of one of his paintings has been anything but mundane. &quot;Russian Schoolroom,&quot; a Rockwell painting stolen from a gallery in the St.
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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 painting by surrealist artist Rene Magritte - valued at Â£350,000 - is recovered after being stolen.
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For the second time in 10 years one of the most famous paintings in the world -- &quot;The Scream&quot; by Edvard Munch -- has been stolen from an art gallery in Oslo.
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Several paintings by some of the most celebrated European artists have been stolen from a Zurich gallery.
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The theft of Edvard Munchâs masterpiece The Scream is the latest in a long line of audacious art heists. Some of the worldâs most famous paintings - including
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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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SAO PAULO, Brazil, Dec. 20 -- Armed with nothing more than a crowbar and a car jack, it took thieves just three minutes to steal paintings worth millions of dollars, by Pablo Picasso and CÃÂ¿ndido Portinari, from Brazil's premier modern art museum.
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The Scream, one of the world&#39;s most recognizable artworks, was stolen from a Norwegian museum Sunday. Two armed, masked thieves pulled a version of Norwegian expressionist Edvard
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Lesson for would-be art thieves: Shhh, be quiet! A slamming door foiled the plans of two men who police say tried to steal a large painting out of the Hyatt Regency in downtown Albuquerque on Saturday.
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Description: A search is under way in Norway for the iconic painting The Scream, stolen Sunday morning from the Munch Museum. Armed men took the expressionist work by Edvard Munch and several other paintings during the museum&#39;s regular touring hours.
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Two masterpieces by Edvard Munch, which were stolen two years ago, are about to go on public exhibition.
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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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Two masterpieces by Edvard Munch, which were stolen from an Oslo museum two years ago, are found.