Security questioned in Picasso theft in Brazil
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The Sao Paulo art museum from which thieves stole a Picasso oil painting worth as much as $50 million had no alarm system and four unarmed guards on duty at the time of the robbery, officials and media said on Friday.
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Armed with nothing more than a crow bar and a car jack, it took thieves just three minutes to steal paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari, worth millions of dollars, from Brazil's premier modern art museum.
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An Andy Warhol painting that a man tried to consign to Christieâs auction house turned out to be listed as stolen.
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Brazil's Catholic churches have long been repositories of some of the world's finest religious art. Thieves are taking advantage of doors that are always open
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Precious paintings worth over 100 million Swiss francs (46.6 million pounds) were stolen from a Zurich museum in an armed robbery on Sunday, police said on Monday, the second dramatic art theft in the area in recent days.
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Swiss police have found two of the four oil paintings by 19th Century masters, which were stolen from a Zurich museum this month in one of Europe's biggest Art thefts, they said on Tuesday.
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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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Three armed men in ski masks stole four paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet worth $163.2 million from a Zurich museum in one of Europe's largest ever art heists, police said Monday.
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By Terry Wade SAO PAULO, Brazil  - A plane full of seizeddocuments flew to federal police headquarters in Brasilia onThursday, a day after agents raided the Brazilian offices ofU.S. risk consultancy firm Kroll Inc. and arrested executivesin a corporate espionage scandal.
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It took thieves just three minutes to steal paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari, worth millions of dollars, from the Sao Paulo Museum of Art
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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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The paintings, which are estimated to be worth a total of about $66 million, were stolen from the Left Bank home of Picassoâs granddaughter Diana Widmaier-Picasso.
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Picasso and Portinari works stolen from Sao Paulo gallery recovered from house undamaged
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A 17th century Dutch painting valued at more than $1 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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Two masterpieces by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch stolen from an Oslo museum at the weekend were not insured against theft, officials said.
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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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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