Thursday, February 21, 2008

Largest Ever Art Heist

Four paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet worth $163.2 million were stolen Sunday from a museum in Zurich. The stolen paintings are:

  • Claude Monet’s “Poppy field at Vetheuil”

  • Edgar Degas’ “Ludovic Lepic and his Daughter”

  • Vincent van Gogh’s “Blooming Chestnut Branches”

  • Paul Cezanne’s “Boy in the Red Waistcoat.”


There is a $90,000 reward for information for each of the paintings.

Also, the FBI estimates that $6,000,000,000 (that's billion) worth of art work is stolen every year, so keep your studios locked ;)

Read more at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23107193/#=rss

2 comments:

grandfunkmayo said...

i'd say come and get it. the sooner we stop holding onto our past with guard dogs and alarms that are sponsored by the insurance juggernaut, the sooner we'll start embracing our recollections of it and looking at it through new lenses., we'll all be better off at that time. let the rich bastards lock their version of the past behind closed doors. we'll keep making our own.

p.s. can you tell i'm trying to incite people to make comments. it's probably annoying by now, but hopefully someone will write back and say so, continuing the thread...

Karen said...

Scott,
I am glad you caught the humor in my comment