Three people have been arrested over the theft of seven paintings from a Netherlands art gallery, Dutch police have said.
The works, by artists including Picasso, Matisse and Monet, have not been recovered.
The arrests marked the first breakthrough for police since thieves broke open an emergency exit and stole the works on October 16th last year in a late-night raid at the Kunsthal gallery in Rotterdam.
The paintings are: Pablo Picasso’s Harlequin Head; Claude Monet’s Waterloo Bridge, London, and Charing Cross Bridge, London; Henri Matisse’s Reading Girl in White and Yellow; Paul Gauguin’s Girl in Front of Open Window; Meyer de Haan’s Self-Portrait; and Lucian Freud’s Woman with Eyes Closed. – (AP)