How much were the two Picasso paintings that were stolen last week worth?”
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. The robbers, who were still at large, stole the paintings Sunday from the E.G. Buehrle Collection, one of Europe’s finest private museums for Impressionist and post-Impressionist art, police said. It was the largest art robbery in Switzerland’s history and one of the biggest ever in Europe, said Marco Cortesi, spokesman for the Zurich police. He compared it to the theft in 2004 of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” and “Madonna” from the Munch Museum in Norway. The three masked men wearing dark clothing entered the museum a half-hour before closing Sunday, police said. While one of the men used a pistol to force museum personnel to the floor, the two others went into the exhibition hall and collected the paintings. One of the men spoke German with a Slavic accent, police said. They loaded the paintings
Article: Picasso Paintings Stolen From Family Home Article from: The Washington Post Article date: March 1, 2007 CopyrightThis material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information) Ads by Google Full-Text Online Journals Research online. Academic journals & books at Questia Online Library. www.Questia.com/Journals GrandeArte – Paintings Original oil paintings, landscapes fast secure payment grandearte.com At least two Picasso paintings worth a total of nearly $66 million were stolen from the house of the artist’s granddaughter in Paris, police said Wednesday. The paintings, “Maya and the Doll” and “Portrait of Jacqueline,” disappeared overnight Monday. A police official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said that
