Warhol Painting Taken From Museum

Works by pop artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein have been stolen from an art gallery in Sweden, officials have said. Pop artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol pictured in 1967 Police say the break-in happened at the Abergs Museum near Stockholm early Friday. Two Warhol and three Lichtenstein paintings were stolen as well as a Disney movie-poster, museum officials said. The museum estimates the value of the stolen artwork at around 3 million kronor (about £251,000). Police said they had no immediate suspects in the case. Warhol took the art world of the 1960s by storm with screen prints featuring repeated images of everyday items - like Campbell's soup tins - and of iconic celebrities like Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley. Obsessed by the nature of fame, he made the much-quoted prediction that in the future everybody would be... [read full story]