Thursday, August 31, 2006

Lost and Found

Good news for all art lovers, Edvard Munch's The Scream has been recovered, together with Madonna, the other painting that had been stolen with it two years ago:
Two masterpieces by artist Edvard Munch have been recovered two years after they were stolen from an Oslo museum.

The Scream and Madonna were found in a police operation. "We are 100% certain they are the originals. The damage was much less than feared," police said.

They had been missing since two armed men ripped them from the wall and threatened staff at the Munch Museum in the Norwegian capital in August 2004.
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The Scream, painted in 1893, is one of the world's most recognisable paintings.

The artworks will now be examined by experts to establish what effect their two-year disappearance has had on their condition.
I love this painting.

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