Estimated cost of lithography, which is called "Parting II», amounts to 2,5 million kroons (447 thousand dollars) . Presumably, she was kidnapped in the period from 12 to 25 June, when the gallery moved to another building. According to the police, the loss was kept secret, because the owner Kaare Berntsen did not want publicity.

Recall that kidnapped last week from another gallery, Nyborg Kunst, was stolen Munch's lithograph entitled "History» . Experts estimate it at 2 million kroons.

Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is one of the pioneers of expressionism. The most famous of his paintings - "Scream" and "Madonna", which, incidentally, also once been in the hands of the unrighteous. In 2004, two masked robbers burst into the Munch Museum, where paintings were stored. Threatening staff weapons, they tore the work from the walls and fled. Two years later, Edvard Munch's masterpieces were found . Criminals were treated with pictures of very bad (on fragmentary reports, work for a long time kept in some sort of bus on the farm near Oslo), and restorers had to work hard to return them presentable. On May 23, 2008, they again exhibited in the Munch Museum.

most expensive piece of the artist is painting "Vampire" (1894). She brought 38.5 million dollars at auction auction Sotheby's Nov. 3, 2008 .

article prepared by Julia Maksimova, AI

Sources: earthtimes.org , artinvestment.ru