In a brazen, middle of the day rip off, armed robbers stole two paintings from a Dutch museum Friday, including one by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali. Police say several masked men walked into the Scheringa Museum for Realist Art in Spanbroek, a village just north of Amsterdam,  waving guns and threatenign museum staff with a gun, before taking two paintings off the wall and making their getaway. The theives took off in a small black car. Not much to go on for Dutch police.
The paintings taken were a 1941 Dali piece entitled Adolescence and Polish art deco painter Tamara de Lempicka’s La Musicienne , painted in 1929, which are both owned by the Dutch museum. The Dali painting was the original but it may be familiar to people because of the great print fraud in the 1970’s and 1980’s.  Adolescence was reproduced as a print as, accordng to art experts, Dali cashed in by issuing “limited” editions that were anything but limited. In this case, though, we are tallking about the original. No arrests have been made yet.