Edvard Munch

Madonna

1894-95; Oil on canvas, 91 x 70.5 cm; National Gallery, Oslo

Madonna is a painting by the NorwegianexpressionistEdvard Munch. Munch painted five versions of the Madonna between 1894 and 1895, using oils on canvas. One of them measures 91 x 70.5 cm.

The version owned by the Munch Museum of Oslo was stolen in 2004 but recovered two years later. Another is owned by businessman Nelson Blitz.

On Sunday, 22 August 2004, Madonna and a version of The Scream were stolen from the Munch Museum by masked men wielding firearms. The robbers forced the museum guards to lie down on the floor while they snapped the cable securing the paintings to the wall and escaped in a black Audi A6 station wagon, which police later found abandoned. Both paintings were recovered by the Oslo Police on 31 August 2006. The following day Ingebjørg Ydstie, director of the Munch Museum, said the condition of the paintings was much better than expected and that the damages, including a 2.5 cm hole in the Madonna, could be repaired.

Rene Magritte

Attempting the Impossible,

1928, oil on canvas, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels.

Incercand imposibilul

Jackson Pollock

Untitled

Ink and gouache on paper

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.

Fara nume

Frida Kahlo

What I Saw in the Water (What the Water Gave Me)

1938, Oil on Canvas

Ce vad eu in apa (Ceea ce apa imi da)

Raffaello Sanzio

The Woman with the Unicorn,

approx. 1505, Galleria Borghese, Rome

Femeia cu unicorn

Wassily Kandinsky

Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle),

1913, National Gallery of Art at Washington D.C.

Improvizatie 31 (Batalie navala)

Salvador Dali

Metamorphosis of Narcissus,

c. 1937

Transformarea lui Narcis

Salvador Dali

Crucifixion

(‘Corpus Hypercubus’), 1954

Crucificare