I feel like as an art and art history lover, I should find these kinds of heists offensive and sad, but I can't help myself. I'm intrigued by them, and particularly by the theories as to the motive for the heist. It's commonly known that it's very difficult to sell stolen works of art, especially ones so famous, which always leads to the theory that the heist was sponsored by a private collector, and the idea that someone would be so in love with certain pieces of art as to have them stolen solely to allow unlimited viewing, is somehow romantic, no?
The £100 million modern art heist
A single masked raider has carried out "one of the biggest thefts in art history" during a dawn heist at a Paris gallery in which he stole works worth hundreds of millions of pounds.
Published: 7:24PM BST 20 May 2010
Click through for the article from the Telegraph and images of the stolen pieces...
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