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Just a few weeks ago, one of the world's largest art robberies happened when three armed men burst into a private collection housed in Zurich and walked out with close to $200 million worth of paintings by Cezanne, Degas, Monet and Van Gogh.
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Devereux Beach
by Apo Torosyan |
Parking Car
by Charles Harker |
Four of the impressionist paintings stolen were just recovered in the parking of a psychiatric hospital in Zurich.
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| As outlined by the Art Loss Register, this fits the normal pattern in big art thefts -- the stolen works are either recovered very quickly by police or remain missing for many years. |
One Missing in Action
by Lee M. Osborne Jr. |
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