Friday, 6 June 2008

Nice Art Robbery 2

Brueghel - Allegory of Earth (detail)In August last year I posted news of four paintings stolen from the Beaux-Arts Jules Cheret Museum in Nice (CLICK). French fuzz recovered them after a surveillance operation and collared the villains trying to sell them from the back of a van. "Bonjour, guv. Wanna buy a Brueghel?" Claude Monet's Falaises pres de Dieppe has been stolen once before. Alfred Sisley's Allee de peupliers de Moret has been stolen twice before! Security seems a bit cavalier at the Beaux-Arts.

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