'Difficult to sell': garden variety ram-raid nets million in precious Maori paintings

Portraits by Czech artist Gottfried Lindauer taken from Auckland gallery where they had been left on display behind glass front windowTwo paintings of Maori leaders that are together worth nearly NZ$1m have been stolen in Auckland in a ram-raid on an auction house where they were left on display in the front window.New Zealand police said the theft occurred at 4am on Saturday. The portraits done by Gottfried Lindauer in 1884 were taken from inside the glass window at the International Art Centre