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Thieves have stolen paintings by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet and other famous modern artists from a museum in Rotterdam, Dutch police say. Works by Paul Gauguin, Lucian Freud and Meyer de Haan, were also among the seven paintings stolen from the Kunsthal museum overnight, police said on Tuesday. Neither the police nor the museum […]
A Pablo Picasso sketchbook with 33 pencil drawings disappeared from a locked glass case in a museum in Paris overnight, the French Ministry of Culture announced Tuesday. The police were immediately alerted, as was a special unit that combats the trade in stolen cultural artifacts. The sketchbook has a red varnished cover with the word “Album” inscribed on it in gold lettering, and measures 16 centimeters by 24 centimeters (6 inches by 9 inches).