Stolen $20,000 Salvador Dalu00ed Not The First: Here Are 6 More Heists

Topline: The Sunday heist of a Salvador Dalí painting in broad daylight from a San Francisco art gallery was only the latest in a series of recently stolen Dalís:

Surprising fact: As of 2017, an online database of stolen artwork had over 600 entries just for Dalí's works, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Key background: Born in Spain 1904 as Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Dalí's surrealist work spanned multiple mediums, including photography and film. Inspired by Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theories, Dalí's work broke new ground in examining and interpreting them. His painting The Persistence of Memory featured those iconic melting clocks and is likely his best-known work. He died in 1982 at the age of 87.