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''Madonna'' is a famous Painting by the Norwegian Expressionist Edvard Munch . Munch painted five versions of the Madonna between 1894 and 1895 , using oils on canvas. One of them measures 91 x 70.5 cm.

One version belonging to the Munch Museum of Oslo is stolen, while another is owned by businessman Nelson Blitz .

The title suggests a depiction of

On Sunday, 22 August 2004 , ''Madonna'' was stolen from the Munch Museum , Oslo (along with the famous painting '' The Scream '', also by Munch ), by masked men wielding Firearms . The Robbers forced the museum guards to lie down on the floor while they snapped the cable securing the paintings to the wall and escaped in a black Audi A6 station wagon, which police later found abandoned.