Nice is nice. Oh snap! I didn’t just make that joke, did I? Someone shoot me. I’m at my wit’s end over here.
Five armed, masked thieves sprinted into an art museum on the French Riviera during opening hours Sunday afternoon and snatched a Monet and three other masterpieces off the walls in the latest brazen heist of high-profile art from the rich collections of Europe.
Wearing jumpsuits, the robbers ordered guards to lie on the floor at gunpoint as accomplices fanned through the galleries of Nice’s Museum of Fine Arts. One thief grabbed French Impressionist Claude Monet’s “Cliffs Near Dieppe” while others snagged the bucolic “Lane of Poplars at Moret” by another Impressionist, Alfred Sisley, and two evocative oil paintings by Flemish artist Jan Bruegel the Elder, according to Interpol, the international police agency.
In case you were wondering, this is the Sisley:
And this is the Monet:
4 masterpieces stolen from museum in Nice – The Boston Globe
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