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Word: konstmuseum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thefts, of course, are not confined to Italy. In May 1973, during the opening of an ethnographical exhibition in the Konstmuseum at Gothenburg in Sweden, someone made off with a major Matisse, the Girl in White. It was so crudely sliced out of its frame that Matisse's signature was left dangling on a flap of canvas from the stretcher. The painting is still lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Plunder of the New Barbarians | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

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