THE ART OF THE STEAL

Thieves broke -- or rather, dug -- into a Zurich art gallery over the weekend and stole seven Picasso paintings worth $44 million. They burrowed their way in through the cellar of a neighboring house. Two of the paintings, "Seated Woman" and "Christ of Montmartre," were worth about $40 million and have been targeted before: They were stolen in June 1991 and recovered the following year. The gallery owner, Max Bollag, says his father bought the two from Pablo Picasso.