Seven paintings by some of the world's most famous artists have been stolen from an exhibition in the Netherlands.

Serbian police have uncovered a painting believed to be by French impressionist Paul Cezanne, which was stolen from a private Swiss museum in 2008 in one of the biggest art thefts in Europe at the time.

A Galway drawing by Augustus John is among the 38 artworks works belonging to Elizabeth Taylor to be sold at Christie’s in London next month.

Even Socrates regretted not getting to close the deal with the most beautiful woman in the world. But as he said, it can happen, and he could always say he at least got to dance with her

About 30 artworks, including paintings by Pablo Picasso and Henri Rousseau, have been stolen from the home of a private collector in Provence, French police said today.

A $45m painting by the 19th century artist Edgar Degas has been stolen from a French museum.

A detail from The Absinthe Drinker, painted by Edgar Degas in 1876 at the height of the drink’s popularity.

SWISS police said yesterday they had found two stolen paintings — one Monet and a van Gogh — of the four that were stolen last week from a gallery in Zurich.

Global warming experts are using the priceless works of British artist JMW Turner to try to track climate change over more than a century.

PICASSO’S 1905 painting Boy with a Pipe has been sold to an unknown buyer for a record-shattering $104 million at Sotheby’s of New York.