Yesterday, paintings by famous artists were stolen from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam, RIA Novosti reported.

Criminals stole pictures of "The Head of Harlequin" by Pablo Picasso, "The Reading Girl" by Henri Matisse, "The Waterloo Bridge" and "The Charing Cross Bridge" by Claude Monet, "Woman in front of an open window" by Paul Gauguin, Meyer de Khan's Self-Portrait and Lucien Freud's Woman with Closed Eyes

The museum in which the theft took place has no permanent collection but exhibits private collections of works of art. The stolen paintings belonged to a private organization of the Triton Foundation.

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