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NEWS FLASH! - First Major Art Theft of the Millenium at UK's Oldest Public Museum. Cezanne Stolen



 
GLOBAL MUSEUM NEWS FLASH - First Major Art Theft of the new Millennium
 
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At about 1.30 am on New Years Day (1 January) burglars broke through the glass roof of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, (the UK's oldest public museum, founded 1683) and stole the Museum's only Cezanne: the oil painting "Auvers-sur-Oise" dating from around 1880 (when Cezanne was living in the area). 
 
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