Stolen Art, Painting | featured news

On Tuesday, the art world reeled after the theft of seven valuable paintings from the Kunsthal gallery in Rotterdam. Before dawn, thieves broke into the museum and, in five minutes, made off with famous works by the likes of Picasso, Monet and Matisse.

Thieves broke into a Rotterdam museum on Tuesday and walked off with works from the likes of Picasso, Monet, Gauguin and Matisse potentially worth hundreds of millions....

A Salvador Dali painting stolen from a Manhattan art gallery last week has apparently been returned to the United States, New York police said.

A Picasso painting, given to the Athens National Gallery by the artist himself, has been stolen along with two other valuable works.

BELGRADE, Serbia - Serbia's interior minister says two Pablo Picasso paintings owned by a German museum and stolen from a Swiss exhibition have been found in Belgrade.

Egyptian authorities stopped two people suspected in the theft of a painting by Vincent Van Gogh, nabbing them just moments before they were to board a plane and flee the country, according to Egypt's official news agency, MENA.

Thieves steal a work by Picasso and other pictures - a day after a major art theft from a gallery in Paris.

Five paintings, reportedly including a Matisse and a Picasso, were stolen overnight from a Paris museum, the Paris mayor's office said Thursday.

A painting by the Impressionist master Edgar Degas has been stolen at an exhibition in Marseille.

A painting by the Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte was stolen from a small Brussels museum this morning by two armed men who rang the doorbell before putting a gun to the concierge's head.