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Cheapest Monet Ever
Going, going, gone: "Falaises pres de Dieppe," painted by Monet in 1897.
Why pay millions at an auction if you can get four masterpieces for free?
Hooded and armed men Sunday staged a brazen afternoon heist at a museum in the French Riviera city of Nice, making off with four priceless paintings: two Bruegels, a Sisley and a Monet.
Police said there were only about six visitors in the building at the time. The robbers threatened staff members and then took the four paintings, put them in bags, and then escaped.
The paintings must be quite popular because this wasn't the first time they were stolen:
Two of the works (a Monet and a Sisley) were also taken during a 1998 robbery, and the Sisley painting had previously been stolen in 1978 while on loan for an exhibition in Marseille.
Police described the theft as a "special order," as the paintings cannot be sold on the market because they are well known.
It might be an idea to replace the nails these painting were hanging on with something more sophisticated before they get stolen again…
Mon 06-Aug-07 | Posted in: Art & Heritage, Oops
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