Thieves yesterday broke into a Rotterdam museum and walked off with works from the likes of Picasso, Monet, Gauguin, and Matisse potentially worth hundreds of millions of euro.

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

WORKS by Zhang Daqian (1899-1983), top selling artist at auction in the world last year, will come under the hammer at Sotheby’s Hong Kong in Oct 5-9.

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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.

The release of a new book on John Kingerlee is tinged with sadness at the tragic death of its editor, writes Marc O’Sullivan

TORTURED artist Vincent Van Gogh died this month back in 1890.

A British man who bought a painting from a junk shop has discovered it could be a £40,000 (€45,412) masterpiece.

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.

Police refused to comment today on reports that four stolen paintings worth around €119m had been found in the car park of a Swiss mental hospital 500 yards from where they were taken.

Three paintings by French masters were put back on exhibition at the Argentine National Fine Arts Museum yesterday a quarter century after being stolen in the largest art heist in Argentine history.

TWO Vincent Van Gogh paintings and works by Paul Cezanne and Leonardo da Vinci are among paintings worth €525 million that have made it on to an FBI most wanted list.

A portrait by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec sold for £12.6m (€18.5m) today at a Christie’s sale of Impressionist and Modern paintings and sculptures, the highest auction price ever paid for a work by the artist.