Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaam!
 

I have been following this story. Anyone else?

Got me thinking about what pic I'd like to have stolen for me...much to lazy to steal it myself. :p

What pic would you like while I have someone snatching mine? (If you can add a link to the pic it would be great)

I've been following the prononunciations of Munch's name. I grew up prononouncing it as "Munsch" but I've heard two broadcasters from different companies (CBC and CTV) pronounce it as "Munk" (actually, it's almost like "Moonk").

I'd love a Picasso sculpture but if you're stealing something, "Guernica" might be easier.

I've always liked Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights"

http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~grad0146/English/delight_c.html

By the way. It has been taken twice before as well.

If I can't have sculpture (my attachment to Rodin's Morning has gotten stronger ever since I wrote that story), I'd have to chose Vermeer's Astronomer, or Burne-Jones's Hope. Mind you, I can fill a book with all the ones I'd take...but those would probably be at the top of it.

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Are you sure that's not an artist's rendition of a Pixie's picnic? :p

My thoughts exactly. :D :hot:

Aqua, Naaaah.

Not enough sex going on and no sign of Lilith.

Hang on, under the second leaf from the left, two thirds down.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

I'll get back to you.

I have always loved this painting. Partly I think, because we had a chair just like it in our home when I was a child....

Van Gogh's Starry Night and his Bedroom are another two of my faves. :)

Not a very clear photo.

I'd have Van Gogh's Irises or a John Miller.

I like the portraits that Van Gogh did of Seine <sp?>, but I'm not the biggest Van Gogh fan on the planet...so how bout something more artsy-fartsy from Monet or something like that?

About stealing famous artist's paintings? Where in the hell could you sell one? Who would buy something so obviously "hot"? Why would someone buy one that is so obviously "hot"? I just don't get the thought process behind this theft! LOL! As you can tell Lil...I've been thinking a lot about it!

I assume they are not sold, exactly. I would think it more likely that someone was paid to steal them.

I love all your choices. Lixy I saw a Monet exhibit this past June and have long loved his work.

Actually, a lot of stollen paintings are successfully ransomed. It's almost expected by the museum that they'll have to pay 5% of it's actual price to get it back. They do always try. Otherwise, it'll wind up in a private collection, never to be seen again.

BiBi, you've got taste exactly like my bf's....that's one of his favorites too!

Someone on the news said often the people who steal such well-known paintings have huge drug debts and are using them as collateral (sp.).