OSLO, Nov 18 (AFP) - A lithograph by Edvard Munch valued at 300,000 euros (448,000 dollars) was stolen in Oslo in June, Norwegian police announced Wednesday, only days after the theft of another precious work by the painter.

The theft of "Loesrivelsen II" (The Separation II), a black and white drawing of a man and a woman with their backs turned to each other, went missing from an Oslo gallery during a move, police said.

"For now we haven't got a suspect," the chief of the Oslo police squad against organised crime John Roger Lund told AFP.

Kept secret until now, police only confirmed the theft after the NRK network noticed that Loesrivelsen II figured on an Interpol list of art works being sought.

The theft is only the latest of a series of thefts of works by Munch (1863-1944), considered a precursor of Expressionism.

Last week, a thief smashed the window of another Oslo art gallery and made off with another lithograph, "Historien" (History), valued at 240,000 euros. The work has not been found.

In August 2004, two major works "The Scream" and "The Madonna" worth an estimated 100 million dollars between them were also snatched in broad daylight by armed masked men from the Munch museum in Oslo.

Ten years earlier another version of "The Scream" was stolen from Oslo's national art gallery on the same day as the Winter Olympics opened in Lillehammer.

In both cases the works were recovered.