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The Scream muted

Martin

Martin

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I happen to know there are a lot of people on these Boards who very much appreciate Edvard Munch's painting The Scream, so as soon as I read this article I rushed over here to post it.

It seems that the painting in question has been stolen, at gunpoint, from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.

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What on Earth would you want with a painting as well known as this one?

Cheers
 
What's really weird is that another version of the painting was also stolen, in 1994, and recovered undamaged. It's almost like the set up for a Batman plot--like The Joker is back in town or something.

Who indeed would steal such a famous work, unless they either want to ransom it or just keep it privately forever.
 
Totally unrelated, but I was reading this thread when I happened upon it...

In Martin's blog, below the Munch comments, he claims:

After that I went skimming through some other people's Bogs
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Find anything you liked? :D
 
Heard about this, a friend of mine said that there's a big market in China, the mega-rich like to have these black market paintings to show off to their closest friends. But the museum expects a ransom request.
 
Go to wonder about a museum whose only security was a metal wire holding the painting to the wall - no alarms. :eek:
 
Yeah, heard about this! Terrible :mad:

Thanks for the heads up on it :) They actually stole two paintings by Munch. The other was the Madona.
 
Yep, they stole two. With a combined worth of $20 million.

And Abu, I didn't even notice that! I forgot the L on my blog, did I? (Yep, I checked, and I did. Thanks for the notice).

Cheers
 
Ashlea, your comment remind of a film which Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta Jones to tried steal something worth. Sound like same with The Scream.
 
For a second I though it was a publicity stunt for the upcoming Ocean's Twelve, which is about a heist in Amsterdam (stealing a van Gogh painting, I believe).

Afraid that's not the case, though.

Cheers
 
Martin said:
I happen to know there are a lot of people on these Boards who very much appreciate Edvard Munch's painting The Scream, so as soon as I read this article I rushed over here to post it.

It seems that the painting in question has been stolen, at gunpoint, from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.

anewsimg.bbc.co.uk_media_images_39984000_jpg__39984632_longscream.jpg
(Click image for more info)

What on Earth would you want with a painting as well known as this one?

Cheers
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Indeed, I heard about that painting being stolen.
I recon its a plot such as "Give us .......... or the painting gets it!"
Must be some terrorist kind of action?
 
There's an article in the BBC Magazine that says that whole idea of millionaires having paintings stolen so they can hang them in their secret lairs is all a big myth. And quite a lot of the time the art thieves are victims of that myth themselves. Because they believe it's true, the police can pose as eccentric millionaires, offer to buy the painting back and then arrest everyone, or else the thieves realise they can't sell and then ransom the painting back.

The chap who helped get The Scream back 10 years ago said that in 20 years of retrieving stolen art he's never found it in the hidden art gallery of a rich nutter.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3590686.stm
 
I've loved the Scream since I was a child. My dad had a life-sized stand-up balloon in the shape of the person in the painting. :D
 
Litany said:
There's an article in the BBC Magazine that says that whole idea of millionaires having paintings stolen so they can hang them in their secret lairs is all a big myth. And quite a lot of the time the art thieves are victims of that myth themselves. Because they believe it's true, the police can pose as eccentric millionaires, offer to buy the painting back and then arrest everyone, or else the thieves realise they can't sell and then ransom the painting back.

The chap who helped get The Scream back 10 years ago said that in 20 years of retrieving stolen art he's never found it in the hidden art gallery of a rich nutter.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3590686.stm
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If thee thieves have read what you have written, then right about now, they will be slapping themselfs in the face and shouting DOH!
 
If they did read the article, they're probably pulling faces a lot like the one in the painting by now.
 
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