KC (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kc_anathema) wrote,@ 2008-02-11 23:58:00 |
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Thieves steal art masterworks in Zurich
Just as an addendum, this has to be one of the worst written news articles I've ever read. I had to read it a couple times to figure exactly which paintings had been stolen where. Details of the theft were jumbled in amongst details about the paintings and the different museums.
URICH (Reuters) - Masked robbers brandishing handguns stole four paintings by 19th Century masters worth $164 million (84 million pounds) from a Zurich museum in Switzerland's biggest art theft, police said on Monday.
The four paintings stolen were Cezanne's The Boy in the Red Vest from 1890, Degas' Viscount Lepic and His Daughters from 1871, Monet's Poppies Near Vetheuil from 1880 and Van Gogh's Blossoming Chestnut Branches from 1890, police said.
Just as an addendum, this has to be one of the worst written news articles I've ever read. I had to read it a couple times to figure exactly which paintings had been stolen where. Details of the theft were jumbled in amongst details about the paintings and the different museums.
