5. Paul Cézanne – ‘View of Auvers-sur-Oise’
This painting was stolen from Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum in 2000.
On December 31, 1999, during the fireworks that accompanied the celebration of the millennium, a thief broke into the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England and stole Cezanne’s landscape painting View of Auvers-sur-Oise. Valued at £3 million (double that price now), the painting has been described as an important work illustrating the transition from early to mature Cezanne painting.