Rotterdam : Paintings worth millions of dollars have been stolen from the Rotterdam Kunsthal Museum. The museum was exhibiting works of Pablo Picaso, Henri Matisse and Vincent Van Gogh.
According to the Dutch state news agency a Matisse painting, "The Reading Girl" was stolen on between Monday and Tuesday morning. The Kunsthal museum has not revealed the exact details of what other works were stolen during the heist. A spokesperson for the museum did confirm that the stolen works were the private property of the Triton Foundation.
This was the first time that the bulk of the Triton Foundations collection went on display as part of a single exhibition, including artwork by, Alexander Calder, Paul Cezanne, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Edgar Degas, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Rene Magritte, Claude Monet, August Rodin, and Andy Warhol, and others.
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