Another Munch is stolen, this time in Sweden

Swedish police on Wednesday tightened border checks after a valuable artwork by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch was stolen from a manor in southern Sweden.

Thieves broke into the summer home of a Norwegian ship owner near Horby, 360 miles south of Stockholm, late Tuesday and stole the painting worth an estimated $138,000, police spokesman Per Jansson said.

Works by the Norwegian painter, who died in 1944, are a popular target for thieves. A version of his most famous painting, “The Scream,” as well as “Madonna,” were snatched by masked gunmen from the Munch Museum in Oslo in August 2004. Three Norwegian men were convicted of the theft, but the paintings have not been recovered.