Three-minute thieves take four Impressionist Paintings

It took masked men only three minutes to steal four paintings from a private museum in Zurich. They burst into the building on Sunday afternoon and ripped the four paintings from the walls so quickly that 15 visitors upstairs were not even aware that a robbery was taking place until the alarms started to howl.

Cézanne’s The Boy in a Red Vest (1890)

Degas’s Viscount Lepic and his Daughters (1871)


Monet’s Poppies Near Vetheuil (1880)



Van Gogh’s Blossoming Chestnut Branches (1890)