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16 October 2012
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ABC News
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Art theft Rotterdam |
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Several important works of art of considerable value have been stolen from Rotterdam's Kunsthal art gallery in an overnight burglary. The stolen works are Picasso's Harlequin Head (1971), two 1901 Monet canvases (Waterloo Bridge, London and Charing Cross Bridge, London), Matisse's Reading Girl in White and Yellow (1919), Paul Gauguin's Girl in Front of Open Window (1898), Meyer de Haan's Self-Portrait, (ca. 1890) and Woman with Eyes Closed, a 2002 painting by Lucian Freud. Although such works would fetch millions of dollars at auction, the stolen paintings will be impossible to unload through legitimate channels, given their high profile, and a sale on the black market is likely to bring in only a fraction of the paintings' real value.
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