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Results for “Cézanne”

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Case

The Bührle Collection Robbery

In one of Europe's largest art robberies, armed men walked into the Bührle museum in Zurich in 2008 and took four Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces. Most were recovered within years.

Case

The Ashmolean Cézanne Theft

As Oxford celebrated the new millennium, a thief slipped into the Ashmolean through a rooftop and took Cézanne's 'View of Auvers-sur-Oise'. It has never been found.

Artwork

View of Auvers-sur-Oise

A Cézanne landscape stolen from Oxford's Ashmolean Museum during the millennium fireworks of New Year's Eve 1999. Never recovered.

Museum

Ashmolean Museum

Britain's oldest public museum, and the scene of a New Year's Eve 1999 theft of a Cézanne landscape.

Story

Parma-geddon Averted: The Carabinieri Bring Three Masterpieces Home

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