The most brazen, outrageous art heists
Can you believe that, on average, just two to six percent of stolen art is recovered?
Our sister site Mental Floss rounded up 26 famous art heists, and in many of them, the artwork was never recovered. And these are high-profile works, too: Edvard Munch's The Scream was stolen twice, and an elaborate heist at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum led to the permanent loss of five works by Degas.
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