Oslo- Norwegian police announced Thursday they had recovered two masterpieces by artist Edvard Munch stolen two years from an Oslo museum. Two armed men ripped the paintings - "Madonna" and a version of "The Scream" - off the museum walls and fled in a stolen car in the August 2004 heist. In May, a Norwegian court sentenced three men to jail terms ranging from four to eight years for their role in the theft. The Oslo district court also ruled that two of the men - alleged heist mastermind Bjorn Hoen and co-defendant Peter Tharaldsen - should pay damages of 750 million kroner (121 million dollars) to the city of Oslo for the stolen Munch masterpieces. Three other defendants in the case were acquitted. Munch, who lived from 1863 to 1944, is considered one of Europe's most important expressionist artists.
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