"six men went on trial in early 2006, variously charged with either helping to plan or participating in the robbery. Three of the men were convicted and sentenced to between four and eight years in prison in May 2006, and two of the convicted, Bjørn Hoen and Petter Tharaldsen, were also ordered to pay compensation of 750 million kroner (roughly US$117.6 million or €86.7 million) to the City of Oslo. The Munch Museum was closed for ten months for a security overhaul. On 31 August 2006, Norwegian police announced that a police operation had recovered both ""The Scream"" and ""Madonna"","
"paintings, including ""The Scream"", have universal appeal in addition to their highly personal meaning. Munch's works are now represented in numerous major museums and galleries in Norway and abroad. His cabin, ""the Happy House"", was given to the municipality of Åsgårdstrand in 1944; it serves as a small Munch Museum. The inventory has been maintained exactly as he left it. One version of ""The Scream"" was stolen from the National Gallery in 1994. In 2004, another version of ""The Scream"", along with one of ""Madonna"", was stolen from the Munch Museum in a daring daylight robbery. All were eventually recovered,"
"March 1994, Norwegian police set up a sting operation with assistance from the British police (SO10) and the Getty Museum and the painting was recovered undamaged on 7 May 1994. In January 1996, four men were convicted in connection with the theft, including Pål Enger, who had been convicted of stealing Munch's ""Vampire"" in 1988. They were released on appeal on legal grounds: the British agents involved in the sting operation had entered Norway under false identities. The 1910 version of ""The Scream"" was stolen on 22 August 2004, during daylight hours, when masked gunmen entered the Munch Museum in"
"a private home in Drammen, Norway. The fourth had been located the previous day in a private home in nearby Sande. During the court trials, Ole Christian Bach was suspected of having organized both the theft and the handling. In September 1992, Bach was sentenced to prison for seven months for handling stolen goods. On Sunday, 22 August 2004, the Munch Museum's versions of ""Madonna"" and ""The Scream"" were stolen by masked men wielding firearms. The thieves forced the museum guards to lie down on the floor while they snapped the cable securing the paintings to the wall and escaped"
"for the 50th anniversary of Munch's death. This site has also been the location of filming for an ""Olsenbanden""-movie from 1984. On Sunday, 22 August 2004, two paintings by Munch, ""The Scream"" and ""Madonna"", were stolen from the Munch Museum by masked men wielding firearms. The robbers forced the museum guards to lie down on the floor while they snapped the cable securing the paintings to the wall and escaped in a black Audi A6 station wagon, which police later found abandoned. The paintings were recovered by Oslo Police on 31 August 2006. In 2008, the City of Oslo promoted"
"Theft of The Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria The theft of ""The Weeping Woman"" from the National Gallery of Victoria took place on 2 August 1986 in Melbourne, Australia. The stolen work was one of a series of paintings by Pablo Picasso all known as ""The Weeping Woman"" and had been purchased by the National Gallery of Victoria for in 1985—at the time the highest price paid by an Australian art gallery for an artwork. A group calling itself ""Australian Cultural Terrorists"" claimed responsibility, making a number of demands (and insults) in letters to the then Victorian"
"Frankfurt art theft (1994) Three famous paintings were stolen from the Kunsthalle Schirn in Frankfurt in 1994. This case of art theft is unique in that the paintings were recovered by buying them back from the people behind the theft, resulting in a heavy profit for the Tate Gallery, owner of two of the paintings. The theft took place on 28 July 1994 in the Kunsthalle Schirn in Frankfurt. The thieves had themselves locked into the museum at night and then overpowered a security guard. The stolen paintings were ""Light and Colour"" and ""Shade and Darkness"", a sequence by J."
"to the Kunsthalle. The two men left for Brazil. The Kunsthalle had received 1,9 million euros from its insurer to compensate for the theft; this money had to be returned upon recovery of the painting. The Kunsthalle refused to recompensate Liebrucks, charging that he had possibly acted in collusion with the thieves. Liebrucks, pointing to a written contract with the Kunsthalle, sued in 2005 and prevailed in June 2006, receiving the 250,000 euros plus a fee of 20,000 euros. Frankfurt art theft (1994) Three famous paintings were stolen from the Kunsthalle Schirn in Frankfurt in 1994. This case of art"
"potential return. Experts are puzzled by the choice of paintings that were stolen, especially since more valuable artwork was left untouched. Among the stolen works was ""The Concert"", one of only 34 known works by Vermeer and thought to be the most valuable unrecovered painting, valued at over $200 million. Also missing is ""The Storm on the Sea of Galilee"", Rembrandt's only known seascape. Other works by Rembrandt, Degas, Manet, and Flinck were also stolen. According to the FBI, the stolen artwork was moved through the region and offered for sale in Philadelphia during the early 2000s. They believe the"
"""The Scream"", and they are where they started, without either knowing anything. They steal some tickets and travel to Nice. There, art enthusiast and collector Cap Cheval (played by Per Tofte) greets them and is overwhelmed to see a real Munch painting, ""The Scream"". Valborg tells Cheval she has over 130 more pictures at home, and Cap tells them to leave. He then calls his paint and art seller comrade in Oslo, Hanssen. Hanssen tells the thug Biffen, to break into Kjell and Valborg's place to steal pictures, but eventually, Hanssen discovers they are false and leaves angrily. They arrange"
"""The Concert"" has been dated stylistically to the mid-1660s, it is first documented only in 1780. It was then acquired by Isabella Stewart Gardner in an 1892 auction in Paris for $5,000 and subsequently displayed in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. On the night of March 18, 1990, thieves disguised as policemen stole 13 works out of the museum, including ""The Concert"". To this day the painting has not resurfaced; it is thought to be the most valuable work currently unrecovered, with a value estimated at over $200,000,000. Even before this episode, the theft of this painting was made the"
"thieves, dressed as Boston police officers, talked their way into the Museum and stole 13 masterpieces valued at $500 million, including works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Manet, and Degas. It is the largest art theft in the world and still remains unsolved. In conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the investigation is active and focused on recovering the art. In 1994 at Hawley’s urging, Senator Ted Kennedy helped pass legislation that made art theft a federal crime and increased the statute of limitations from five to fifteen years. As a result of her 26-year leadership,"
"in Santa Maria della Scala at Rome, or the ""Liberation of Peter"" in the Berlin Museum. His 1620 ""The Adoration of the Shepherds"" in the Uffizi was destroyed in the Via dei Georgofili Massacre of 1993. Honthorst's 1623 ""The Concert"" was purchased for an undisclosed sum by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., from a private collection in France in November 2013. The painting had not been on view since 1795. The ""The Concert"" went on display for the first time in 218 years in a special installation at the National Gallery of Art's West Building on November"
"works not consists with its current collections. With board approval, the Matisse was offered for auction at Sotheby's but did not make the reserve of one million dollars. Later, a deal was struck with a private buyer for a net amount of $1,000,000 which was placed in a separate endowment fund for acquisitions and exhibitions. The ""Scranton Times"" lamented the loss of the city's ""masterpiece"". On November 17, 2005, two works, a Jackson Pollock painting and pop artist Andy Warhol's 1984 ""Le Grande Passion"", were stolen in a robbery involving ladders and a careful plan of attack. Despite efforts to"
"District Court for the Western District of Washington, Seattle, to recover the painting ""Odalisque"" (1927 or 1928) by Matisse, the first lawsuit against an American museum concerning ownership of art looted by Nazis during World War II. In 2013, they demanded that the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter museum return ""Woman in Blue in Front of Fireplace"" (1937), a Matisse painting that was confiscated by the Nazis in 1941 in Paris. Sinclair was previously married to French journalist Ivan Levaï, with whom she has two sons. She separated from her second husband, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, ex-managing director of the International Monetary Fund, in"
"and women began to appear more symbolic than realistic. He wrote, ""No longer should interiors be painted, people reading and women knitting: there would be living people, breathing and feeling, suffering and loving."" ""The Scream"" exists in four versions: two pastels (1893 and 1895) and two paintings (1893 and 1910). There are also several lithographs of ""The Scream"" (1895 and later). The 1895 pastel sold at auction on 2 May 2012 for US$119,922,500, including commission. It is the most colorful of the versions and is distinctive for the downward-looking stance of one of its background figures. It is also the"
"Museum in September 2000. It was cut out of its frame and replaced with a copy, which had been painted on cardboard. At the time, the painting was valued at more than $1 million, and was the only painting by Monet on public display in Poland. The theft was discovered on 19 September 2000, and police searched for a man who had been seen making sketches of paintings in the museum two days earlier. The painting was recovered on 12 January 2010. Police also arrested a 41-year-old man in the southern Polish city of Olkusz, whom they believe to be"
"""O Lavrador de Café"" (""The Coffee Farmer""), by Cândido Portinari, and the ""Portrait of Suzanne Bloch"" by Pablo Picasso. The whole action took about three minutes. Art experts estimated value of the paintings at about 55 or 56 million dollars. The paintings were recovered by the Brazilian police on January 8, 2008, in the city of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, in the Greater São Paulo. São Paulo Museum of Art The São Paulo Museum of Art (, or """") is an art museum located on Paulista Avenue in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. It is well known for its headquarters,"
"by the National Gallery of Australia in 1973 for . Commenting on the purchase of ""The Weeping Woman"", director of the National Gallery of Victoria Patrick McCaughey said its recent acquisition is ""the most expensive purchase by any Australian gallery"", and ""This face is going to haunt Melbourne for the next 100 years."" The National Gallery of Victoria's ""Weeping Woman"" has been reported as valued by Sotheby's as worth $100 million. The thieves obtained access to the gallery on Saturday 2 August 1986, and unscrewed the painting from its wall mounting. The thieves then removed the mounted canvas from its"
"The end of a disappointing 2012 AFL season for Australian football team Essendon Football Club was illustrated by a description of there being two well-known weeping figures within walking distance of each other in Melbourne: Essendon coach James Hird at the Melbourne Cricket Ground as well as ""the famous one at the National Gallery of Victoria"". Theft of The Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria The theft of ""The Weeping Woman"" from the National Gallery of Victoria took place on 2 August 1986 in Melbourne, Australia. The stolen work was one of a series of paintings by Pablo"
"Musée National Picasso in Paris, opened at the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, US. The exhibition subsequently travelled to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia: the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California, US.; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. , Picasso remained the top-ranked artist (based on sales of his works at auctions) according to the Art Market Trends report. More of his paintings have been stolen than any other artist's; in 2012, the Art Loss Register had 1,147 of his works listed as stolen."
"with a fishing vessel. Ekeberg Ekeberg is a neighborhood in the city of Oslo, Norway. The Norway Cup soccer tournament takes place at Ekebergsletta every summer. ""Sletta"" means ""the plain"". The painting ""The Scream"" by Edvard Munch is painted from Utsikten (""the view""), a part of Ekeberg. In the area are a number of old Iron Age grave mounds and Bronze Age ritual sites. This establish the area of Ekeberg as one of the oldest inhabited places around Oslo. During the Middle Ages, the farm of Ekeberg belonged to Hovedøya Abbey. The area was later taken by the crown. From"
"Mechthild Princess Lichnowsky, who kept it at her private collection in London. From the English capital, the painting went to Lugano, in Switzerland, where it was held in the private collection of the Biber family. The painting remained on deposit at the National Gallery of Art, in Washington between 1942 and 1946. In the following year, it was acquired by the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP), with financial resources donated by Walter Moreira Salles, founder of Unibanco. On December 20, 2007 the painting was stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art. Around five o’clock in the morning, three"
"2009 by two armed men. The stolen work is said to be worth about US$1.1 million. ""Olympia"" was returned to the museum early January 2012. The thieves handed back the painting because they were unable to sell it on the black market due to its fame. René Magritte René François Ghislain Magritte (; 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Often depicting ordinary objects in an unusual context, his work is known for challenging observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality. His imagery has"
"This has proven to be somewhat contentious, given that the NGV is technically not a national gallery, and occasionally there have been calls for it to follow the example of the other state galleries. According to former Victorian Premier Steve Bracks, ""We won't be renaming the National Gallery of Victoria. It has a great tradition. It is the biggest and best gallery in the country and it's one of the biggest and best in the world."" A famous event in the museum's history occurred in 1986 with the theft of Pablo Picasso's painting ""The Weeping Woman"" (1936). A person or"
"Oslo and stole it and Munch's ""Madonna"". A bystander photographed the robbers as they escaped to their car with the artwork. On 8 April 2005, Norwegian police arrested a suspect in connection with the theft, but the paintings remained missing and it was rumored that they had been burned by the thieves to destroy evidence. On 1 June 2005, with four suspects already in custody in connection with the crime, the city government of Oslo offered a reward of 2 million Norwegian krone (roughly US$313,500 or €231,200) for information that could help locate the paintings. Although the paintings remained missing,"
"Galilee"", Rembrandt's only known seascape. Despite efforts by the FBI, the works have not been recovered. The museum initially offered a reward of $5 million for information leading to recovery of the art, doubled in May 2017 to $10 million. Empty frames hang in the Dutch Room gallery as placeholders for the missing works. The selection of stolen works puzzled experts, as more valuable artworks were present in the museum. According to the FBI, the stolen artwork was moved through the region and offered for sale in Philadelphia during the early 2000s. They believe the thieves were members of a"
"on their own weapons. In Renaissance times Last Judgment paintings showed viewers the reckoning of the damned and the saved at the time of Christ's Second Coming. In echoing this kind of painting the Mystical Nativity is asking us to think not only of Christ's birth but of his return.."" (Jonathan Nelson, Syracuse University in Florence). The painting emerged from the city of Florence in a time when the fanatical preacher Savonarola held the city in its grip. He had arrived in Florence in 1490 but had been repelled by the artistic glory and enormous wealth that so impressed the"
"The Storm on the Sea of Galilee The Storm on the Sea of Galilee is a painting from 1633 by the Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt van Rijn that was in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, prior to being stolen in 1990. The painting depicts the miracle of Jesus calming the storm on the Sea of Galilee, as depicted in the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is Rembrandt's only seascape. On the morning of March 18, 1990, thieves disguised as police officers broke into"
"Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio (Spanish for 'Don Juan Tenorio poster') is a 1949 painting by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. It is perhaps best known for its theft and return. The painting achieved international coverage when it was stolen from the month-old Venus Over Manhattan gallery in New York City. Valued at $150,000, the painting was discovered missing from the gallery in New York's Upper East Side on June 19, 2012. In spite of the presence of a security guard, a man wearing a checked shirt left the gallery with the painting hidden in a"
"Nuenen"" and ""View of the Sea at Scheveningen"". Two Dutchmen were convicted for the theft to four-and-a-half-year sentences, but the paintings were not immediately recovered. The museum offered a reward of €100,000 for information leading to the recovery of the paintings. The FBI Art Crime Team listed the robbery on their ""Top Ten Art Crimes"" list, and estimates the combined value of the paintings at US$30million. In September 2016, both paintings were discovered by the Guardia di Finanza in Naples, Italy. The two artworks were found in a ""relatively good state"", according to the Van Gogh Museum. The museum is"
"art he stole was ""Sybille, Princess of Cleves"" by Lucas Cranach the Elder from a castle in Baden-Baden in 1995. Its estimated value at auction would be £5-£5.6 million. He cut it from its frame at a Sotheby's auction where it was to be sold. Although he amassed such a large collection of art, he never attempted to sell any of it for profit, instead enjoying thinking about how he was ""the wealthiest man in Europe."" It was all kept in his bedroom in his mother's house in Mulhouse, France. His room was kept in semi-darkness so the sunlight would"
"Isabella Gardner's legacy in art, music, and horticulture while reducing 21st-century strain on the collection and galleries. The completion date was 2012, and the project cost $118 million. In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, a pair of thieves disguised as Boston police officers robbed the museum of thirteen works of art worth an estimated $500 millionthe greatest known property theft in history. Among the works was ""The Concert"", one of only 34 known by Vermeer and thought to be the most valuable unrecovered painting at over $200 million. Also missing is ""The Storm on the Sea of"