Swiss Painting Believed Stolen

BERN—A painting by Swiss artist Ferdinand Hodler has gone missing on its way to an exhibition in Bern, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reports. The picture was collected by a transportation company but never made it to the Bern Museum of Fine Arts, its destination. It was to be part of an exhibition entitled "A Symbolic Vision," a collection of Hodler's works on view until August 10.

Swiss police are treating the matter as a major art theft, after two other high profile robberies occurred in the past few months: Two Monets and two Degas's, worth a combined 180 million francs ($163 million), were stolen from the Emil Buehrle private art collection in Zurich in February, and a few days before that, two Picassos on loan from Germany, worth an estimated 4 million francs, were stolen from an exhibition near Zurich. No further details have been released on the Hodler incident.