In 2009 , Norwegian burglars smashed an Oslo art art gallery ’s windowpane with a rock and made off with a valuable 1914 lithograph machine by noted Expressionist artist Edvard Munch . to begin with this week , the Associated Press reports , police located the body of work and arrested two valet de chambre connected to its theft .
The handwriting - colored lithograph , Historien(History ) , is undamaged . As for the men in custody , police suspect that , while they were in possession of the print and other stolen goods , they did n’t steal the art themselves . According to functionary , the two individual — who both have felonious records and are know to Norse police — faced a pre - trial detainment hearing yesterday . One of the hold men ’s lawyers aver his customer denies the charge , Norway ’s NTB news agency report .
Historiendepicts an senior barbate man perched on a rock underneath a tree , verbalize to a vernal male child . As of its time of larceny , it was valued at € 240,000 ( $ 244,000 ) . However , experts said it was too notable to trade on the mainstream market .
Pascal Nyborg , the art gallery proprietor who suffered the larceny , no longer runs the business , according toNorwegian Broadcasting ( NRK ) . However , he ’s still glad that the lithograph was rule . “ The case had been dropped , and I guess it ’s wonderful that the artistic creation was recovered anyway , ” Nyborg enjoin NRK .
Munch ’s works have tempted many a thief . A copy ofThe Screamwas pilfered fromNorway ’s National Gallery in 1994 , and surreptitious detectives posed as prowess dealers to recover the goodness . In 2006,police rescue two Munch painting — a second copy ofThe Screamandanother oil chef-d’oeuvre , Madonna — that had been swiped by masked bandits from Oslo ’s Munch Museum two years prior . And in 2005 , officialsarrested nine individualswho were link with the stealing of Munch ’s watercolorBlaa Kjole , orBlue Dress , and two of his lithographs .
