http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/20/world/europe/AP-EU-France-Museum-Theft.html
PARIS (AP) — A lone thief stole five paintings worth up to half a billion euros ($613 million) total, including major works by Picasso and Matisse, in a brazen overnight heist Thursday from a Paris modern art museum, police and prosecutors said.
The paintings were reported missing early Thursday from the Paris Museum of Modern Art, across the Seine River from the Eiffel Tower, according to Paris police. Investigators have cordoned off the museum, in one of the French capital’s most tourist-frequented neighborhoods.
Here are the paintings in question.
”Le pigeon aux petits-pois” (The Pigeon with the Peas)- Pablo Picasso
“La Pastorale” (Pastoral) – Henri Matisse
“L’olivier pres de l’Estaque” (Olive Tree near Estaque) – Georges Braque
“La femme a l’eventail” (Woman with a Fan) – Amedeo Modigliani
“Nature-mort aux chandeliers” (Still Life with Chandeliers) – Fernand Leger
“L’olivier pres de l’Estaque” (Olive Tree near Estaque) – Georges Braque
“La femme a l’eventail” (Woman with a Fan) – Amedeo Modigliani
“Nature-mort aux chandeliers” (Still Life with Chandeliers) – Fernand Leger
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