Thieves broke into the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford during the night of December 31st 1999 and stole a painting by Cézanne entitled «Auvers-sur-Oise» painted between 1879 and 1882. They neglected several major paintings in the room where that work was hanging, police said.
Art thefts in Britain are amounting to some US $ 800 million every year.
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