The Biggest Art Heists In History (12 pics)

1

The Just Judges by Jan Van Eyck

Stolen from: Saint Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium on April 10, 1934
Art piece value: 1 million Belgian francs
Total value of robbery: 1 million Belgian francs

2

View of Auvers-sur-Oise by Paul Cezzane

Stolen from: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England on December 31, 1999
Art piece value: $4.5 million
Total value of robbery: $4.5 million

3

Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence by Caravaggio

Stolen from: Oratory of San Lorenzo, Sicily on October, 1969
Art piece value: $20 million
Total value of robbery: $20 million

4

Seven masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, and Lucian Freud

Stolen from: Kunsthal Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands on October, 2012
Art pieces value: $24 million
Total value of robbery: $24 million

5

View of the Sea at Scheveningen* and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen by Rembrandt Van Rijn

Stolen from: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands on December 7, 2002
Value of art pieces: $30 million
Total value of robbery: $30 million
*Pictured

6

Poppy Flowers by Vincent van Gogh

Stolen from: Mahmoud Khalil Museum, Cairo, Egypt in 2010
Art piece value: $55 million
Total value of robbery: $55 million

7

Portrait of a Young Man by Raphael

Stolen from: Czartoryski Museum, Poland in 1939
Art piece value: $100 million
Total value of robbery: $100 million+

8

The Scream by Edvard Munch

This piece of art has been stolen twice and there are actually four versions of Munch's The Scream - two in paint and two in pastels.
Art piece value: One of the pastel versions sold for just shy of $120 million.
First robbery: Taken from the National Gallery in Oslo, Norway on the opening day of the Lillehammer Winter Olympics, February 12, 1994. The robbers left a note that read, "Thanks for the poor security."
Second robbery: On August 22, 2004, masked gunmen entered the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway stealing a painted version of The Scream and another Edvard Munch painting, Madonna.

9

Le Pigeon Aux Petits Pois or The Pigeon With Green Peas by Pablo Picasso

Stolen from: Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, France on May 20, 2010
Art piece value: $30 million
Total value of robbery: $140 million

10

Storm of the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt Van Rijn

Stolen from: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston on March 18, 1990
Art piece value: $3.4 million
Total value of robbery: $500 million