The 50 Greatest Art Heists of all Time
By Courtney Willis | Feb 17, 2011 | 1:07 pm | Permalink
#30. Burglars Rob Egypt's Mahmoud Khalil Museum For This Van Gogh-Twice
Stolen: Vincent van Gogh, "Poppy Flowers (Vase with Flowers)"
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Year: August 2010
Worth: $50 Million
Rob them once, shame on you. Rob them twice, well, then they asked for it. Especially when only seven of the 43 cameras worked and all the alarms were out. Security measures were so lax that the thieves were able to drag a nearby couch underneath the painting and cut it out of its frame with box cutters unnoticed? And this painting had already been stolen from the museum once? Come on. The second art heist in this museum's history was pulled off seamlessly, and now Egypt's general prosecutor is holding the museum accountable: the Culture Ministry's Head of Fine Art was detained for negligence and 14 other officials can't leave the country, including the 11 museum officials that are being tried in court and facing 3 years. Oops.
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Steven February 18th, 2011 at 04:04 AM
First off this is a pretty terrible article, its is interesting but some one who reads this article will most likely want to hear what happened to the painting, how it was stole or how the authority's have no idea wtf happened. Instead this article is a complete let down it says the very lest amount about each heist possible and a in a few case nothing about the heist at all. Secondly, who gave the writer of this article this list of heist? because its utterly uninteresting these are some of the lamest heist I've ever heard off and as someone who is pretty well verst in art history I have to say check your facts some of these aren't even true.
dr.octogon February 19th, 2011 at 12:21 AM
While I agree with your sentiment Steven, you have the spelling and grammer of someone severely mentally challenged.
Big Red Machine February 19th, 2011 at 02:04 PM
While I agree with you, doctor, I must point out that you spelled GRAMMAR wrong. That might be the funniest shit I have seen in a while. Irony is a bitch.
LFMAO@dr.octogon December 11th, 2011 at 04:58 AM
LMFAO @ dr.octogon What a fucking fail OMG you must feel so stupid right now!