Yes. Edvard Munch's The Scream has been stolen twice, both times in Oslo, the capital of Norway. In 1994 two men took one version from the National Gallery on the day the Winter Olympics opened.
In 2004 masked men with a gun took another version from the Munch Museum. Both paintings were recovered.
The picture shows a figure on a path above a fjord, both hands pressed to its face, its mouth open under an orange sky. Munch first painted it in 1893, in oil, tempera and pastel on a sheet of cardboard about 91 by 73.5 centimeters, or three feet tall.
That 1893 Scream hung in Oslo's National Gallery, which has since merged into Norway's National Museum. Around 1910 Munch painted the image again, in tempera on cardboard, and kept that version himself.
He left it, with the other works he still owned, to the city of Oslo, which built the Munch Museum to show them. So the two thefts hit two different pictures in two different museums.
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The 1994 theft came on a day when most of Norway had its eyes on Lillehammer, a town north of Oslo, where the Games were opening. Many Oslo police officers had been sent there.
For the Olympic celebrations, The Scream had been moved to a gallery on the second floor of the National Gallery, a building with no real security.
The postcard left on the wall in 1994
On the wall where The Scream had hung, the thieves left only a postcard. It read "Thanks for the poor security…" Getting the painting back would take three months and a detective from London who pretended to buy it for a museum in California.
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