Magritte's work was stolen from his new museum

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Armed robbers stole a picture of Magritte Museum
ARTinvestment.RU - 25.09.2009, 12:01

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24.09 in the morning in the Brussels Museum Rene Magritte (René Magritte) there was a robbery. The criminals dragged now called "Olympia". According ARTINFO.com, the estimated value of work is 1.1 million dollars. English newspaper Times, however, said that she can bring excess of 3 million pounds (4.8 million). A Belgian newspaper Le Soir describes the estimated cost of 3-4 million euros (4,4-5,9 million dollars). In any case, the picture belongs to the category of very costly.

According to police Berkman Johan (Johan Berckman), approximately at 10.10 am, someone called in at the door of the museum. While in the building were three officers and two Japanese tourists. Once one of the workers admitted museum visitors, one of them pulled out a gun and ordered everyone present to leave the yard. Another went straight to the painting "Olympia" and removed it from the wall. Employee of the museum in March Lemmens (Martha Lemmens) told me that one of her colleagues tried to scream, but the offender has closed her mouth. Lemmens itself is not present during the robbery, but rushed to the museum as soon as learned about the incident.

By stealing the painting, the thieves got into the car and fled. After they fled, the building of the museum alarm. The robbers were without masks, but their appearance reportedly not very much - according to Le Soir, one of the perpetrators "were of Asian appearance.

"Olympia" is the most valuable item in the museum. In this picture, written in 1948, depicts the artist's wife, Georgette (Georgette).

The museum is located in the house where the great Belgian surrealist lived for 24 years. Visit the exhibition is possible only by prior arrangement.

Interestingly, the Magritte Museum had once been attacked by robbers - but not to the present, and "cinematic". In the 1999 film "The Sting Thomas Crown Affair" criminals break into a museum in hats, bowler hats. Headgear not chosen by accident: pots frequently in the artist's canvases.

It is unclear why they did commit such a robbery? Well it's impossible to sell, will still pop up. By order of a madman who will wither as Kashchei over it? silly in my opinion.

and by the way no one has been in 4-storey Magritte Museum, which opened recently? This thing was stolen from his former home, because of the new museum to steal probably impossible because of the huge number of)

P.S. now at 1 channel is advertising the autumn series of games, "What?" Where? "When?", where the experts are presented in the form of humans with the famous Magritte painting.