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SWEDEN'S NATIONAL MUSEUM THEFT

Renoir, Young Parisian Rembrandt, self portrait
Renoir, Young Parisian
Rembrandt, Self Portrait
Recovered

DESCRIPTION

In December 2000, three men entered the National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. One man threatened a guard with a submachine gun while the other two armed thieves removed three paintings worth $36 million within a few minutes.   With Renoir’s Young Parisian and Conversation with a Gardner and a Rembrandt self-portrait in hand, the thieves escaped in a motor boat covering their escape with diversionary explosions in other parts of the city.  One of the paintings, Conversation with a Gardner, was found later by police during a raid. The other two paintings were recovered in 2005.


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