{"id":25,"date":"2008-02-11T20:45:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T03:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=25"},"modified":"2008-02-17T14:38:14","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T21:38:14","slug":"armed-robbers-in-old-masters-art-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/11\/armed-robbers-in-old-masters-art-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed Robbers In Old Masters Art Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paintings by some of the world’s most famous artists have been stolen by an armed gang from a museum in Zurich.<\/p>\n

\"Cezanne's<\/p>\n

Cezanne’s Boy in a Red Waistcoat<\/p>\n

Four oil paintings worth more than \u00a380m by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet were taken in the weekend robbery from the E.G. Buehrle museum.<\/p>\n

A police statement said three robbers wearing ski masks and dark clothing entered the museum half-an-hour before closing on Sunday.<\/p>\n

While one of the men used a pistol to force museum personnel to the floor, the other two robbers went into the exhibition hall and collected the four masterpieces.<\/p>\n

Cezanne’s The Boy in the Red Vest (1890), Degas’ Viscount Lepic and His Daughters (1871), Monet’s Poppies Near Vetheuil (1880) and Van Gogh’s Blossoming Chestnut Branches (1890) were taken.<\/p>\n

Officials described it as a “spectacular art robbery”.<\/p>\n

\"Van<\/a>The E.G. Buehrle museum contains one of the finest collections of 19th and 20th Century European art.<\/p>\n

The FBI estimates the market for stolen art at \u00a33bn annually and Interpol has about 30,000 pieces of stolen art in its database.<\/p>\n

Last week, Swiss police reported that two Pablo Picasso paintings were stolen from a Swiss exhibition near Zurich.<\/p>\n

The two oil paintings, Tete de cheval (Head of horse) and Verre et pichet (Glass and pitcher), were on loan from the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paintings by some of the world’s most famous artists have been stolen by an armed gang from a museum in Zurich. Cezanne’s Boy in a Red Waistcoat Four oil paintings worth more than \u00a380m by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet were taken in the weekend robbery from the E.G. Buehrle museum. A police statement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}