Stolen Art That Made a Return

VENEZUELA

ODALISQUE IN RED TROUSERS, MATISSE

The Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art realized in 2002 that the Matisse original had been switched with a copy. The FBI caught a couple in 2012 attempting to sell the canvas in Miami Beach.

NORWAY

THE SCREAM, MUNCH

It took only 50 seconds for a thief to steal the most important of four versions of this iconic painting from a Norwegian museum in February 1994. It took police two months to recover it.

U.K.

FRUITS ON A TABLE, GAUGUIN

Stolen from a London flat in 1970, this still life was found some 40 years later in the home of an Italian pensioner. He had bought it at a lost-property auction and eventually got to keep the $44 million piece.