Edvard Munch

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Three Sentenced in Munch Theft Trial
A Norwegian court has sentenced three men to serve between five and nine-and-a-half years in prison for stealing Edvard Munch masterpieces in a spectacular heist in Oslo in 2004.

Stolen Munch Paintings Recovered
Art lovers and students might want to scream with joy: Edvard Munch's stolen masterpieces The Scream and Madonna have been safely recovered, Norwegian police believe.

FBI Names Its Most-wanted Stolen Works of Art
From Boston to Baghdad, missing treasures add up to a $6bn-a-year black market.

Security Clamp at Scream Museum
The Munch Museum in Oslo reopened yesterday with £3m of new security measures, 10 months after a version of Edvard Munch's The Scream was stolen by armed robbers.

Stolen Munch Works Recovered
Three works by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, stolen from a hotel in southern Norway, were recovered yesterday less than 24 hours after they were taken.

Tourists See Munch's Scream Stolen
A hunt began yesterday for The Scream and another masterpiece by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch after they were snatched in a daytime raid at a gallery in Oslo. Tourists were forced to lie on the floor as two armed robbers pulled The Scream and The Madonna off the wall and ran to a...

Stratospheric Echo Locates Munch's Scream
Astronomers have pinpointed the exact spot where one of the modern world's most dramatic paintings was conceived. Edvard Munch's The Scream took shape while the painter was walking along a road called Ljabrochausséen in Oslo. It was there in 1893 that Munch felt "a great...