THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Masked gunmen stole two paintings from a Dutch museum Friday, including a work by surrealist Salvador Dali, officials said.
Police said several robbers threatened a guard at the Scheringa Museum for Realism in Spanbroek with a gun before making off with two paintings. Nobody was injured.
The robbers took “Adolescence,” a 1941 gouache by Dali, and “La Musicienne,” an oil painting from 1929 by Polish-born art deco painter Tamara de Lempicka, the museum said in a statement.
The paintings’ value was not released, but the museum says they are among its top works.
“We deeply regret the theft and hope the works are traced soon,” according to a statement from the museum.
The Dali painting shows a landscape in which a woman’s face can be seen. Her lips and nose are formed by the back of a seated woman, and her eyes are part of two hills in the background.
