A museum in Malmo, Sweden, was unaware of the theft of three of its works of art until police found them in a raid in nearby Landskrona. An Edvard Munch painting, Two Friends, valued at $1.5 million, was discovered in the apartment raid by police, along with paintings by Swedish artist Gustaf Rydberg and Paer [...]
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A doorman who works across from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art found a painting outside his building and kept it for weeks, then realized it was a missing work at the center of a bizarre legal web and turned it in to investigators this week, an official said. “Portrait of a Girl,” painted in [...]
“Portrait of a Girl” by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. The painting is missing after a man hired to help sell the painting misplaced it after a night of drinking. The owner valued it at $1.4 million. Tom Doyle and James Carl Haggerty weren’t hobnobbing in Manhattan, Miami or London in early 2007 as the art market was [...]

