Word: fric
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...welcome as a new acquisition is an undamaged reacquisition, and last week Saint-Tropez' Annonciade Municipal Museum was readying its blank walls to receive 56 canvases heisted last year in one of the Riviera's most daring fric-fracs (TIME. July 28, 1961). Tipped off by an anonymous letter to France's Minister for Cultural Affairs Andre Malraux, police found the robbers' cache stashed away in a dilapidated barn 50 miles west of Paris. The $1,500,000 worth of art, including works by Matisse, Dufy, Utrillo and Bonnard, had come through the ordeal almost unscathed...
...strips was trying to solve a wave of Riviera art heists, a band of thieves last week made off with the biggest haul of masterpieces in modern French history: 57 canvases lifted off the unguarded, uninsured walls of the Annonciade Municipal Museum in chic Saint-Tropez. Value of the fric-frac, as a robbery is known in France: $1,500,000, including Matisses, Derains, Dufys, Vlamincks and a pair by Dunoyer de Segonzac, curator of the museum, who was away at the moment to supervise a big show of his own works in Geneva...