Art Stolen from a Zurich Museum
February 12, 2008 at 1:02 am (news)
Tags: art crime, art theft, zurich
Bandits in ski-masks ran off with several famous paintings today from a museum in Zurich.
A reward of $90,000 was offered for information leading to the recovery of the paintings — Claude Monet’s “Poppy field at Vetheuil,” Edgar Degas’ “Ludovic Lepic and his Daughter,” Vincent van Gogh’s “Blooming Chestnut Branches” and Paul Cezanne’s “Boy in the Red Waistcoat.”
Many pieces of art are stolen each year. Apparently it is a very proffitable thing, the trafficing and copying of famous paintings to sell. I hope the pieces are found, but I really doubt it; most just seem to vanish, as if they never were.
