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Famous artworks stolen from Zurich museum
Armed robbers have managed to steal famous art works worth over $100 million including the works of Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh, from a Zurich museum, police said Monday.
- Agencies
- Published: 12:01 February 12, 2008
- This photo released on Monday by the Swiss police shows a reproduction of the Paul Cezanne painting "The Boy in the Red Vest", which is one of four paintings by major artists stolen on Sunday from the private museum E.G. Buehrle Collection, in Zurich.
- Image Credit: AP/EPA
Zurich: Armed robbers have managed to steal famous art works worth over $100 million including the works of Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh, from a Zurich museum, police said Monday.
Zurich police said the robbery took place Sunday. Also among the works stolen were oil paintings by Paul Cezanne and Edgar Degas.
Police called the heist a "spectacular art robbery," but did not identify the museum, saying only that it is in the city's eighth district.
Last week, two Pablo Picasso paintings were stolen from a Swiss exhibition near Zurich. The two oil paintings, Tete de cheval (Head of horse) and Verre et pichet (Glass and pitcher), were on loan from the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany.
In 1994, seven Picasso paintings worth an estimated $44 million were stolen from a gallery in Zurich. They were recovered in 2000, and a Swiss man and two Italians were jailed for the theft.
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