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153.0. "Swedish Royal Museum art theft " by TLE::SAVAGE (Neil, @Spit Brook) Fri Oct 17 1986 10:31

Associated Press Thu 16-OCT-1986 18:53                       Sweden-Art Theft

                    Five Paintings Taken From Royal Museum
    
    STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Five French paintings valued at several
    hundred thousand dollars were stolen from the Royal Museum on Thursday
    by thieves whe entered through a window and escaped before the alarm
    brought police. Museum spokeswoman Inga Zachau, who provided the value
    estimate, said they chose the best and most valuable works. 
    
    Dag Widman, the curator, was quoted by the Swedish news agency TT as
    saying the job might have been a foreign contract raid. The paintings
    once belonged to King Carl XVI Gustaf's great uncle, Prince Eugen, an
    artist and collector who died in 1947. 
    
    Stolen were two 19th century works by Delacroix, Corot's "The Pond,"
    "Landscape from Auvergue" by Rousseau and "Flowers in a Basket" by
    Andre Derain from the turn of the century. Four of the paintings were
    stolen in 1976 and recovered.