treehousepainter

I'm in the process of reading a book called "The Rescue Artist" by Edward Dolnick. It's about the real life theft of Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream" in 1994 (as well as other art heists). 2 men armed with nothing but a ladder, wire cutters and a hammer stole this painting from the second story of Norway's national museum in under two minutes! Unbelievable! One mind boggling fact in this book is the number of stolen paintings as yet to be recovered... 551 Picasos, 43 van Goghs, 174 Rembrandts and 209 Renoirs... and that's only naming some of the big ones! Crazy!!! sad at the same time though. Somewhere these paintings are on display... but we'll never see them. Must get back to reading... just wanted to take a moment and share that with the SG world.