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...HAGUE, Netherlands) - Masked gunmen stole two paintings from a Dutch museum Friday, including a work by surrealist Salvador Dali, officials said...
Police said several robbers threatened a guard at the Scheringa Museum for Realism in Spanbroek with a gun before making off with two paintings. Nobody was injured...
...robbers took "Adolescence," a 1941 gouache by Dali and "La Musicienne," an oil painting from 1929 by Polish-born art deco painter Tamara de Lempicka, the museum said in a statement. (Read "Spirited Away: Art Thieves Target Europe's Churches...
...paintings' value was not released, but the museum says they are among the top works in its collection...
...deeply regret the theft and hope the works are traced soon," according to a statement from the museum, which is 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Amsterdam...