Armed robbers stole paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet worth $163.2 million from a Zurich museum, police said Monday, calling it a "spectacular art robbery."

Police in the Swiss financial center said the robbery of the four paintings from the E.G. Buehrle Collection, one of Europe's finest private museums for Impressionist and post-Impressionist art, occurred Sunday. Three masked men who entered the building with pistols are still at large.

Police called the heist a "spectacular art robbery".

Cezanne's "Boy in the Red Waistcoat" was among the works stolen from the private Buehrle museum in the eighth district, according to police.

The prosperous and peaceful outer eighth district on the eastern shore of Lake Zurich is home to several notable art collections.

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