Local News in Brief : Two Oil Paintings Stolen
Two early 20th-Century oil paintings by prominent European modern artists, which were valued at $165,000, were stolen from the Santa Monica home of a sculptor, police said Wednesday.
Someone “familiar with the house” stole “Christ in a Fishing Village,” a 1937 work by Georges Rouault, and “The Blonde Child,” a 1912 painting by Emil Nolde, between midnight and 9 a.m. Tuesday, Santa Monica Police Detective Eddie Kaiser said.
The owner of the house, whose name was not released, returned from an evening out to find the paintings removed from the walls of the house on exclusive Wood Acres Road, overlooking Santa Monica Canyon at the northern boundary of the city, Kaiser said.
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