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Paris museum alarm broken, thief takes art worth $100M Experts say five famous paintings, including...

Paris museum alarm broken, thief takes art worth $100M Experts say five famous paintings, including...

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Paris museum alarm broken, thief takes art worth $100M Experts say five famous paintings, including a Picasso, a Matisse and a Modigliani, will be hard to sell

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Paris museum alarm broken, thief takes art worth $100M Experts say five famous paintings, including a Picasso, a Matisse and a Modigliani, will be hard to sell

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Toronto, Ont: Torstar Syndication Services, a Division of Toronto Star Newspapers Limited

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Toronto star, 2010-05-21

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Toronto, Ont: Torstar Syndication Services, a Division of Toronto Star Newspapers Limited

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She said it will be "virtually impossible" to sell such prominent paintings on the open market. Typically, stolen art fetches lower prices on the black market. "Very often they can be used as collateral to broker other deals" involving drugs or weapons, she said. "They are not necessarily going to be bought by some great lover of the arts." "You ca...

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Paris museum alarm broken, thief takes art worth $100M Experts say five famous paintings, including a Picasso, a Matisse and a Modigliani, will be hard to sell

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0319-0781

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