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Stealing a Masterpiece Can Bring Wealth, or Attention for a Cause

Martin Steinberg

The Associated Press

NEW YORK - The theft of Claude Monet's "Impression: Sunrise" and eight other paintings Oct. 27 from the Marmottan Museum in Paris has been described as "the theft of the "Mona Lisa" in 1911.

But the largest recorded art theft this century was that of Jan Vermeer's "Lady Writing a Letter With Her Maid" and 18 other paintings in 1974 from the home of Sir Alfred and Lady Beit in Blessington, Ireland, according to the 1985 edition of the Guinness Book of Records.

The paintings, recovered eight days after the theft, were valued at $ 19.2 million, including $ 6.9 million for the Vermeer.

On Oct. 27, five Impressionists paintings by Monet and two by Pierre-Auguste Renoir were among the masterpieces stolen from the Marmottan Museum, according to the curator, Yves Brayer.. He estimated the loss at $ 12.5 million.

It was revealed later by police and museum representatives that none of the paintings was insured.

Of the works stolen, Monet's 1872 "Impression: Sunrise" was considered priceless because it inspired the name of the late 19the century French Impressionist school of painting, Mr Brayer said.

"It's a formidable loss," said Mr. Brayer, "as if someone had stolen the 'Mona Lisa'."

He called it "the theft of the century."

Leonardo de Vinci's "Mona Lisa" was stolen from the Louvre Museum on Aug. 21. 1911, and recovered two years later in Italy. Vincenzo Perruggia, an employee of the Paris museum, served a prison term of a year and 15 days for the theft.

Some thieves have stolen well-known works of art to publicize a cause. The unemployed truck driver who stole Goya's "The Duke of Wellington" from London's National Gallery in 1961 said he took it because he was enraged by the British government's refusal to exempt old-age pensioners from television license fees.

In 1934, the thief who stole 15th-century painting that was part of Jan van Eyck's "Ghent Altarpiece" left a note protesting the Treaty of Versailles. One of the thieves in the Beit theft pistol-whipped Sir Alfred and reportedly shouted:"Capitalist pigs! You're walking on the working class."

In other art thefts:

 Eight paintings were stolen in October 1982 from Norway's National Gallery in Oslo. Seven of them which were valued at $ 5.55 million and included masterpieces by Picasso, Rembrandt, Goya and Van Gogh, were recovered almost two years later near Frankfurt.

 Thirty-six 18the- and 19th-century paintings by such Neopolitan artists as Vincenzo Gemito and Palizzi brothers were stolen in May 1984 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples by three masked gunmen. Police said the works were worth millions of dollars on the black market.

 Seven Italian Renaissance masterpieces were stolen in November 1983 from the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. The state-controlled news media called it Hungary's largest art theft. Experts estimated the paintings' value at $ 7 million. All of the paintings, which included works by Raphael and Tintoretto, were recovered within a year. Some were found in a sack that had been pulled from the Danube River.

 In June 1945, an American soldier stole two paintings by the German painter Albrecht Dürer from a castle in Weimar, in what is now in East Germany,before the area was turned over to Soviet occupation forces. The soldier, who was never identified, later sold the works, which had a combined value of about $ 8 million, for $ 450. The paintings, done in 1499, were returned to Weimar.

 Rembrandt's "Portrait of a Rabbi," with an estimated value of $ 1 million, was stolen Dec. 24, 1978, from the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco. Two days later, $ 3 million worth of paintings by Paul Cézanne, the French Impressionist, were stolen from a storage room at the Art Institute of Chicago.

 Thirty-eight paintings valued at $ 8 million were stolen in May 1975 from the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in Milan.

 In January 1976, 118 paintings by Picasso were taken from the Palais des Papes in Avignon. They were recovered later.