Rotterdam art thieves take valuable paintings in dawn heist

Paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Gauguin, Meyer de Haan, Lucian Freud and two by Monet were stolen on Tuesday from a gallery in Rotterdam. The works were named by the museum's management on Tuesday afternoon, as Pablo Picasso's Harlequin Head; Henri Matisse's Reading Girl in White and Yellow; Claude Monet's Waterloo Bridge, London, and Charing Cross Bridge, London; Paul Gauguin's Girl in Front of Open Window, De Haan's Self-Portrait and Freud's Woman with Eyes Closed. The Picasso was the best known work. Experts say the stolen paintings' worth was well in the tens of millions of pounds.http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/oct/16/rotterdam-art-thieves-valuable-paintings