Criminals can be tricky and resourceful, but sometimes they do not bother to develop complex plans and special tricks, relying on the effect of surprise or brute force

AI offers its readers the publication material Telegraph about the most brazen kidnappings and unusual fabrics known in the past hundred years.

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1911. Louvre. "Gioconda"

In 1911, an emigrant from Italy, Vincenzo Perugia (Vincenzo Perugia), then working at the Louvre, became a famous museum, removed from the wall, "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci and quite easily carried it out. "Patriot" Perugia is to restore the masterpiece by Leonardo in his homeland. Two years later, the thief was caught in Florence, where he negotiated the sale of paintings by local museums (among which some sources name even Uffizi Gallery), and the canvas returned to its place in the Louvre. In the end, only one year off with Perugia jail sentence. Security Louvre since, fortunately, has been significantly improved.

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2006. The Munch Museum in Oslo. "The Scream" and "Madonna»

Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch (Edvard Munch) between 1893 and 1910 created four versions of his famous paintings "The Scream." Two of them are out of luck: They prey of robbers. In 2004, armed with a firearm criminals have stolen one of the options "Scream" and Munch's painting "Madonna" from the Munch Museum in Oslo. Two years later, the thieves were caught and prosecuted, but fabric suffered during a robbery.

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< strong> 2003. Manchester Whitworth Gallery. Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso

police assumed that the case involved a professional thieves, in 2003 from Whitworth Gallery in Manchester, despite the presence of alarm, security and surveillance cameras, criminals were able to carry the work of Gauguin, Van Gogh and Picasso. To the surprise of police, the masterpieces were discovered in a public toilet, located a few hundred meters from the museum, with attached a note which read: "The goal was to steal to pay attention to the deplorable state of security." Although cops found suspicious note only excuse scared of crooks, who have realized that to sell the stolen goods can not be, the gallery has made the necessary findings and drew attention to the security of its collection.

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2010. Paris Museum of Modern Art. Picasso, Matisse, Marriage, Leger and Modigliani

In May 2010 the offender broke the window of the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, and disappeared with the works of Picasso, Matisse and other famous artists. At first the work was stolen estimated at 500 million euros, but then the experts have reduced the amount of damage to a moderate 100 million. After stealing the representatives of the museum acknowledged that the updated alarm system in a few weeks did not work in full. The list of stolen paintings are impressive: "A dove with green peas," Pablo Picasso (1911), "Pastorale" by Henri Matisse (1906), "The olive tree near Estaka" Georges Braque (1906), "Woman with a Fan" by Amedeo Modigliani (Amedeo Modigliani) (1919) and "Still Life with a candlestick," Fernand Leger (Fernand Leger) (1922).

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1991. Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Sunflowers

In 1991, two criminals broke into the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, and stole 20 paintings there, including the world-famous work, the Dutchman "Sunflowers". The entire civilized world sighed with relief a few hours later, when the paintings were found unharmed in the car, which tried to escape looters.

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2002. Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. "View of the Sea in Scheveningen" and "Out of the flock of the Protestant Church in Nuenen»

11 years later, in 2002, two thieves took away two more paintings from the same Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam - "View of the Sea in Scheveningen" and "Out of the flock of the Protestant Church in Nuenen." Criminals have been caught and went to serve his sentence in 2003, but the location of the paintings are still unknown.

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2010. Swedish National Museum. Rembrandt self-portrait, "Young Parisian" and "Conversation" by Renoir

In 2010, in Sweden there was a robbery in the style of Hollywood movies: Three criminals in masks broke into the Swedish National Museum of machine gun, the police diverted the attention of mock bombs, pre-positioned throughout the city, while they themselves were easy to host the museum's collection. In the end, "brave men" disappeared with the paintings worth 30 million dollars on a motor boat. For the museum thriller ended happy ending: the eight criminals were sent to serve the sentence, and paintings by Renoir and Rembrandt returned to his seat.

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2003. Dramlenrig Castle, Scotland. "Madonna with the spindle," Leonardo da Vinci

In 2003, the painting "Madonna of the spindle," Leonardo, estimated at 45-50 million dollars, was stolen from the ancestral castle Duke Buccleugh (Duke of Buccleuch) in Scotland, two visitors during the tour. The precious cloth found in 2007 in the office of law firm in Scotland. In the case of the theft and fencing were several people, including two unsuccessful lawyer.

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1961. The National Gallery, London. "Portrait of the Duke of Wellington," by Francisco Goya

In 1961, Kempton Bunton (Kempton Bunton), a bus driver retired, he stole the painting "Portrait of the Duke of Wellington," by Francisco Goya in protest against what the British government bought it for 392,000 dollars from U.S. oil tycoon. Three weeks after the payment of money to American Bunton climbed out the window with a portrait of the museum toilets on the grounds that the money the government could spend to help the poor and like him, retired. Bunton later surrendered to the authorities, for which he escaped with only three months in prison.

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1990. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. Rembrandt , Degas, Manet, Vermeer

rich resident of Boston Isabella Stewart Gardner (Isabella Stewart Gardner), works of art collected during trips to Europe, settled on after death to make his home in Museum. In 1990, two men in police uniforms, who managed to cope with the guards agencies have learned from the museum building three paintings by Rembrandt, five sketches by Degas, Manet, and on the work of Vermeer - the general "catch" was $ 300 million. And the work of criminals and to are still at large, despite the promised police reward of $ 5 million.

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2008. Zurich. Emil Bührle Foundation. Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet

In 2008, criminals in masks stole four masterpieces by Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet worth about 84 million pounds from the Collection Emil Bührle Foundation in Zurich. Thieves hankering for masterpieces of the late XIX century: "Poppies near Veta" Monet, "Count Lepic and his Daughters" by Edgar Degas, "Blossoming Chestnut branch" Van Gogh and "The Boy in the red waistcoat" Cezanne. Later, two studies have found, the rest are still at large.

This list of high-profile thefts of works of art could be supplemented by recent abduction of the figure of Rembrandt Hotel in California , if the experts do not have doubts about the authorship of the work . About works of art for which are still hunting the police, described in the material of .

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Source : artinvestment.ru