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NEWS ABOUT: Monet

Monet stories: 5 news summaries

Stolen Art Found in Parking Lot

4 paintings snatched from Swiss museum recovered

Feb 19, 08 6:55 AM CST
(Newser) - The four 19th-century paintings stolen from a Swiss museum have reportedly been found in an unlocked car parked outside a Zurich psychiatric hospital. Although police have not yet confirmed the find, Swiss media are reporting that the $168 million worth of loot—one work each by Cézanne, Degas, Monet,... More »

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art • Switzerland • painting • Zurich • Vincent Van Gogh • Monet • Cézanne • Degas • art heist • Emile Bührle Foundation

$160M in Art Stolen in Zurich

 'Spectacular' heist nets 4 masterpieces by Van Gogh, Degas, Monet, and Cezanne

Feb 11, 08 9:10 AM CST
(Newser) - A gang of armed art thieves absconded with four masterpieces by Van Gogh, Degas, Monet, and Cezanne worth $160 million from a Zurich museum yesterday. The brazen daytime robbery follows a theft of two Picassos in Switzerland just two days earlier. The three masked thieves confronted a guard with guns,... More »

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art • theft • painting • Vincent Van Gogh • Monet • Cezanne • Degas • art heist

Five Busted in Monet Vandalism

One in drunken pack had link to museum

Oct 10, 07 5:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Four men and a woman have been arrested for allegedly punching a hole in a Monet masterpiece at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. One admitted damaging the painting, and another knew how to access the building through a rear entrance because of a work history with the institution, police... More »

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France • art • painting • vandals • arrest • Monet

Vandals Punch Hole in Monet

Group broke into Paris museum during all-night culture festival

Oct 8, 07 2:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Four or five people broke into a Paris museum on Sunday and punched a hole in a Monet. The group broke open a back door to the Musee d'Orsay and fled when an alarm sounded, but not before tearing a four-inch hole in "Le Pont d'Argenteuil," a scene... More »

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art museum • France • art • vandalism • painting • Paris • vandals • damage • Monet

Iran Guards Hidden Art Trove

Top modern art collection kept in the basement of Iranian museum

Sep 20, 07 1:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - A basement chock full of Picassos, Monets, and almost every important Western Modernist painter—surely the Louvre? Au contraire, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. That’s where the LA Times’ Kim Murphy found a treasure trove of painstakingly cared-for paintings that have seen the light of day but once... More »

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Iran • art museum • Tehran • art • Andy Warhol • painting • Picasso • Jackson Pollock • Monet • Kandinsky • Islamic Revolution

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