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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / Entertainment => Topic started by: Cyberus on August 22, 2004, 12:26:50 PM
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But how could they possibly sell it?
Some collector is gonna have to squirrel it away...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3588282.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3588282.stm)
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On reading the title (despite knowing the artwork) I couldn't help picturing one of those cartoon gags where someone hurts themselves whilst trying to be quiet and screams into a paper bag before opening it later. Just imagined someone making off with the bag...
Surreal :-)
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i thought this was stolen years ago, then read this:
Munch painted several versions of his famous 1893 work. The National Gallery version - considered to be the most significant one - was stolen in 1994 as the Winter Olympic Games began in Lillehammer, Norway.
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The painting was recovered undamaged in a hotel about 65km (40 miles) south of Oslo in May 1994.
Ah! so this one was another thieft!
these crimes are hard to keep up with!
what's with the obsession?????
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@ Cyberus
Most of these thefts involve insurance, so what will probably happen is the folks at the Munch museum will get a call to 'negotiate' the safe return of the work. Some money will be paid and the painting will be 'found' in a little bed & breakfast or a hotel a few days later, to much fanfare and applause at the adeptness of the authorities ;)