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"It paints a pretty stark and harrowing picture," Connor Bamford, a marine ecologist at the British Antarctic Survey and lead author of the study, told AFP.

The Kleins, who were wine dealers, acquired the painting after Klimt's death in 1918.

There, the classrooms offer a stark contrast to the dilapidated government schools, with painted walls, new desks, whiteboards and fans, and students in smart uniforms.

The thieves marched past the Bode-Museum’s paintings and sculptures, making a beeline for their target: a giant, 220-pound coin bearing the profile of Queen Elizabeth II.

A trio of Bob Ross paintings sold for more than $600,000 in a Los Angeles charity auction Monday to help support public television programming that is struggling after government funding was slashed.