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Thieves Nab
a Picasso in Museum Heist

Work by Portinari also missing after quick strike in Brazil

Associated Press Associated Press Dec 21, 07 8:48 AM CST
(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 »

More about:  art • Brazil • painting • theft • art theft • art heist • Sao Paulo • Picasso • Candido Portinari

Russia Cancels UK Painting Exhibition

Art reversal is latest salvo in worsening diplomatic tit-for-tat

Guardian (UK) Guardian (UK) Dec 19, 07 10:53 AM CST
(Newser) - A major exhibition of Russian-owned art in London was canceled today, the Guardian reports, the latest casualty of cooled relations in the wake of the Alexander Litvinenko affair. More than 100 paintings were to go on exhibition Jan. 26 at London's Royal Academy, but Russian agencies are now refusing the loans, officially for fear the art won't be returned. More »

More about:  painting • Alexander Litvinenko • Communists • Picasso • Matisse • London's Royal Academy • Cezanne

Iran Guards Hidden Art Trove

Top modern art collection kept in the basement of Iranian museum

Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times 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 since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. More »

More about:  Iran • art • painting • Tehran • art museum • Andy Warhol • Monet • Picasso • Jackson Pollock

Stolen Picassos Recovered

Trio busted in theft of $66M paintings lifted from Paris home of artist's granddaughter

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

More about:  France • art • painting • robbery • art theft • Picasso

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