Stolen Adolescence

'Adolescence', a picture painted by Salvador Dali in 1941, was robbed not long ago by masked and armed men in the Scheringa Museum in Amsterdam, together with another picture titled 'The Music', painted by the Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka in 1929.

The robbers entered the museum in broad daylight when there were 20 visitors. They threatened the receptionist and security guard, went directly to the paintings, took them and left in a black Volkswagen Golf. All seems to be thieves who knew exactly what they wanted and knew where to locate the precise spots in the museum, taking just those paintings amongst 500 exhibited there. Likely a commissioned job. Such famous paintings are impossible to sell in the black market, without some unscrupulous collector(s) financing the crime.

I am no reporter, what I am interested is this fantastic picture of Dali, and also the title he gave to it, 'Adolescence'; almost poetic. I have never heard of the other painter Tamara de Lempicka. Nor do I possess enough knowledge of art to judge it's merit or value. To be honest I have to confess I don't think the painting 'The Music', though nice, is not all that outstanding. To me anyway, artistically speaking, I see a great difference between the two paintings, but obviously this latter one too was considered of equal value, to be the only two objects the robbers, or rather the person(s) who ordered the heist, had taken the risk to commit the crime. Can anyone give me your opinion on these pictures, the Music, especially?

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