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  • June 2008

    • Brazil Thieves Nab 2 Picassos

      Reuters  |  Jun 12, 08 7:22 PM CDT

      Brazil Thieves Nab 2 Picassos

      (Newser) - Picasso remains the artist of choice for the criminal elite of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Three armed robbers made off with two of his prints— The Painter and the Model and Minotaur, Drinker and Women —from a city museum today, Reuters reports. The robbery comes just weeks after thieves nabbed Picasso's Suzanne Bloch painting from a different city museum. More »

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      Brazil  • art theft  • Sao Paulo  • Pablo Picasso

  • May 2008

    • Sculpture Thieves Seek Scrap Metal

      Wall Street Journal  |  May 1, 08 4:39 PM CDT

      Sculpture Thieves Seek Scrap Metal

      (Newser) - A wave of sculpture thefts has little to do with the pieces’ artistic merit: Police believe they’ve been stolen for their valuable copper content, the Wall Street Journal reports. In the past 18 months, three public artworks displayed in Brea, Calif., have disappeared—and the trend is appearing across the country, pushing some artists to consider dropping bronze as a medium. More »

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      art  • commodities  • sculpture  • art theft  • copper  • public sculpture

  • February 2008

    • Stolen Art Found in Parking Lot

      Guardian (UK)  |  Feb 19, 08 6:55 AM CST

      Stolen Art Found in Parking Lot

      (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, and van Gogh—has been recovered. The paintings were stolen by masked gunmen on February 10. More »

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      art  • painting  • Switzerland  • art theft  • Vincent Van Gogh  • art heist  • Monet  • Cézanne  • Degas  • Zurich

    • $160M in Art Stolen in Zurich

      BBC  |  Feb 11, 08 9:10 AM CST

      $160M in Art Stolen in Zurich

      (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, grabbed the paintings, and took off in a white vehicle, said authorities, who described the operation as a "spectacular" heist. More »

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

  • January 2008

    • Feds Raid Calif. Museums, Gallery in Stolen Art Case

      New York Times  |  Jan 25, 08 10:38 AM CST

      Feds Raid Calif. Museums, Gallery in Stolen Art Case

      (Newser) - Federal agents raided four California museums and a private gallery in a smuggling investigation into stolen foreign antiquities, reports the New York Times . The gallery allegedly imported looted goods from Thailand, Myanmar, and China, and individuals got inflated tax write-offs for donating them to museums. No charges have yet been filed in the case, which is being investigated by immigration, national park, and tax authorities. More »

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      California  • art  • fraud  • museums  • art theft  • looting  • artifacts

    • Brazilian Cops Recover Stolen Picasso

      Reuters  |  Jan 9, 08 2:20 PM CST

      Brazilian Cops Recover Stolen Picasso

      (Newser) - Police in Brazil have recovered a Picasso painting stolen from a Sao Paulo museum last month and arrested two suspects yesterday. The Picasso, Portrait of Suzanne Bloch , and a painting by Brazilian Candido Portinari are valued at a combined $55 million. The thieves broke into the museum using a hydraulic jack and snatched both paintings in 3 minutes. More »

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      Brazil  • painting  • art theft  • Pablo Picasso  • Candido Portinari

  • December 2007

    • Bangladesh in Frenzied Search for Stolen Art

      Reuters  |  Dec 24, 07 11:34 AM CST

      Bangladesh in Frenzied Search for Stolen Art

      (Newser) - Bangladesh has mounted a massive hunt for two priceless artifacts that went missing yesterday at the Dhaka airport, Reuters reports. The statues of the Hindu god Vishnu, sculpted 1,500 years ago, were on their way to an exhibition at a Paris museum. Bangladeshi authorities have detained 12 suspects and stopped the shipment to France while the investigation continues. More »

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      art  • Paris  • theft  • Bangladesh  • art theft  • art heist  • Vishnu

    • Thieves Nab a Picasso in Museum Heist

      Associated Press  |  Dec 21, 07 8:48 AM CST

      Thieves Nab a Picasso in Museum Heist

      (Newser) - Thieves broke into Latin America's foremost museum early yesterday and stole two paintings in a 3-minute heist. They made off with a Picasso portrait and a work by Brazilian painter Candido Portinari from Brazil's São Paulo Museum of Art, the AP reports. The thieves skipped several major works and grabbed only the two canvases, hung far apart, leading police to conclude they were stolen on demand. More »

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      art  • Brazil  • painting  • theft  • art theft  • art heist  • Sao Paulo  • Picasso  • Candido Portinari

  • October 2007

    • Scottish Cops Recover Stolen da Vinci in Law Office Raid

      Scotsman (UK)  |  Oct 5, 07 8:56 AM CDT

      Scottish Cops Recover Stolen da Vinci in Law Office Raid

      (Newser) - Police in Scotland have recovered a stolen $75 million painting by Leonardo da Vinci in a raid on a top Glasgow law firm that led to four arrests. A lawyer in the firm was among those busted. The  " Madonna of the Yarnwinder " was stolen in 2003 from the Duke of Buccleuch's castle  when the thieves, posing as tourists, snatched the work off a wall and ran, reports the Scotsman . More »

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      art  • painting  • theft  • Scotland  • art theft  • Leonardo da Vinci

  • August 2007

    • Stolen Picassos Recovered

      Independent (UK)  |  Aug 9, 07 5:18 AM CDT

      Stolen Picassos Recovered

      (Newser) - Two stolen Picassos worth more than $66 million have been recovered by French police who swooped in as the thieves were about to sell the rolled-up canvases. Tipped off by a suspicious art dealer, investigators set up round-the-clock surveillance of  the suspects for more than a month. Three men have been arrested. More »

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      France  • art  • painting  • robbery  • art theft  • Picasso

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