Recovered art

The National Gallery’s Scream stolen and recovered in Oslo

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Edvard Munch, The Scream (1893), Nasjonalmuseet. Public domain.
Edvard Munch, The Scream (1893), Nasjonalmuseet. Public domain. Image source ↗
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Edvard Munch’s 1893 version of The Scream was stolen from Norway’s National Gallery in 1994 and recovered the same year. The work is now displayed at Nasjonalmuseet.

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Recovered artEdvard Munch

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Rembrandt, Self-Portrait (1630), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

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