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VERSION
OF MUNCH'S THE SCREAM STOLEN
by Bob Brooke
 According
to the Reuters News Service, armed robbers stole masterpieces by
Norwegian artist Edvard Munch from a museum in Oslo on Sunday, August
22, 2004 around 5 A.M. A version of his famous painting "The
Scream," " a picture featuring a waif-like figure on a bridge,
was supposedly part of the take.
Norwegian national radio NRK said the paintings
stolen from the Munch Museum included a version of the famous portrait
of modern angst, and a version of another key work, "Madonna."
"I can confirm that there has been a
robbery," an official at the Munch Museum said. Police declined to
comment and the museum wouldn’t disclose which paintings were stolen.
Thieves stole another, and perhaps
better-known, version of "The Scream" from Norway's National
Gallery in a break-in on February 1994, on the opening day of the Winter
Olympics in Lillehammer. It was retrieved several months later and
remains in that gallery.
Munch, who lived from 1863 to 1944 and who was
a pioneer of modern expressionism, made several copies of his key works,
including "The Scream."
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