$300,000 Rodin Bust Stolen from the Copenhagen museum. Danish police announced that they are looking for two suspects. Meanwhile Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum released surveillance pictures of the two suspects. According to the museum, it took the thieves 12 minutes to snatch the 25.5cm bronze bust, from the moment they entered until they left. The museum also said it was clear they were professional art thieves.

In 1864, Rodin submitted his first sculpture for exhibition, The Man with the Broken Nose, to the Paris Salon. The subject was an elderly neighbourhood street porter. The unconventional bronze piece was not a traditional bust, but instead the head was "broken off" at the neck, the nose was flattened and crooked, and the back of the head was absent, having fallen off the clay model in an accident. The work emphasized texture and the emotional state of the subject; it illustrated the "unfinishedness" that would characterize many of Rodin's later sculptures.The Salon rejected the piece. (Source: Wikipedia.org)

"The perpetrators visited the museum to explore the premises about a week before the theft, and they must have known what they were stealing," said police spokesman Ove Randrup to Politiken. Authorities from Interpol and Europol are investigating the case, under suspicion that it was an internationally-organized operation.