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| Munch's "The Scream" recovered in Norway after missing two years |
| 2006-08-31 |
| You know--that famous painting based on the lovable Macaulay Culkin pose in "Home Alone"... Edited for brevity. "The Scream" and another stolen masterpiece by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch were recovered by police on Thursday, two years after gunmen seized the paintings from an Oslo museum. "'The Scream' and 'Madonna' are now in police possession," police chief Iver Stensrud told a news conference. "The damage is much less than we could have feared." He said the pictures were recovered on Thursday afternoon in "a successful police operation" and said no ransom had been paid. I haven't seen "The Scream", and I haven't seen "Madonna", but I saw a screaming Madonna on MTV once. Two masked gunmen walked into the Munch Museum Munch painted two famous versions of "The Scream", including the one recovered on Thursday. The other was stolen in 1994 from Oslo's National Gallery by thieves who simply broke a window and climbed in with a ladder. It was recovered after several months by police posing as buyers. Wow--even paintings have sequels! |
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| Posted by: DMFD 2006-08-31 18:59 |
| #2 $122,000,000 or $224,000,000 does not make much difference, either way you're likely smegged for life. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2006-08-31 17:33 |
| #1 Three men were convicted in May of taking part in the theft and were sentenced to up to eight years in jail.Two of them were ordered to pay $122 million in damages. Each? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-08-31 17:02 |