Five paintings, including Picasso, worth million stolen from Paris museum
The major work by Picasso and Matisse is in the list of stolen five paintings. The paintings disappeared early Thursday from the Paris Museum of Modern Art, across Seine River from the Eiffel Tower.
It looks like a tight plot of some novel; a thief comes in heavily guarded Paris Museum of Modern Art and steals five paintings worth hundreds of millions of Euros. The paintings disappeared early Thursday from the Paris Museum of Modern Art, across Seine River from the Eiffel Tower. In last few days museum’s security system, including surveillance cameras had been broken for the past few days, according to police official.
Christopher Girard, deputy culture secretary at Paris City Hall, confirmed that the security system was disabled at the time of theft, and said single masked intruder was caught on a video surveillance camera.
Three guards were there on duty, but they saw nothing. It is definitely an act of very sophisticated team. The intruder entered by cutting a padlock on a gate and breaking a museum window. Museum officials initially estimated the five paintings total worth at as much as $613 million.
The “Le pigeon aux petits-pois” (The Pigeon with Peas) and brown Cubit oil painting by Picasso was worth an estimated euro23 million, and “La Pastorale” by Henri Matisse about euro15 million.
The others paintings were “L’oliver pres de l’Estaque” by George Braque. “Le femme a l’eventaol” by Ameddeo Modigliani and “Nature morte aux chandeliers” by Fernand Leger.
It is one of the biggest thefts in art history, considering the estimated value, the prominence of the artists and high profile of the museum.
Although it is impossible to sell such painting in open market, but very often they are used as collateral to broker other deals involving drugs or weapons. Interpol is alerting its national bureaus around the world to the theft.
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