Watching People Looking at Art

Monet at Musée de l'Orangerie.

Gah, Paintings Burnt by Thief's Mom...

Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge

From The Telegraph:

Six Romanians have been charged with the theft, and now detectives in their home country have found the charred remains of what looks like the paintings in an oven.
They were allegedly put there by Olga Dogaru who said she torched the artwork to "destroy the evidence" following her son's arrest in January.

Here's the original post from Bloomberg with images of the paintings that were presumably destroyed by the thief's mother.

Thieves stole seven paintings, including works by Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet, from the Kunsthal museum in the Dutch city of Rotterdam earlier today, police said.

“Preliminary findings show the burglary was well- prepared,” the Rotterdam-Rijnmond police district said in a statement on its website. It said the theft took place at about 3 a.m. local time. Detectives are talking to possible witnesses and scrutinizing camera images, the police said.