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To: Sacajaweau
I recently read "The Rescue Artist" about the recovery of "The Scream" that was stolen during the 1994 Lillehammer games.

Can't remember the time-frame but Munch painted something like a half dozen or so "Screams". One of which, was displayed as "The Scream", and stolen again...

FWIW, the book is interspersed with a number of art theft stories, including the "Mona Lisa".

IIRC, its theft by a janitor was so that some con artist could sell fakes for big bucks to rich idiots. The painting's theft generated the needed publicity to con the buyers that each mark was getting the original. The crook also shafted the janitor, BTW, who eventually got off fairly easy, being an Italian "wishing to repatriate the art..."

31 posted on 10/01/2012 7:55:38 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

I had the pleasure of seeing Cabanel’s THE BIRTH OF VENUS in the Met in NYC this year. I found it was a copy of his own work which he was paid to reproduce. His original is in the Mus’ee d’Orsay, Paris.

About 45 years ago there was an article in one of our major news magazines (I can’t remember which one was) about other copies of the Mona Lisa which may have been done by Leonardo or his students. One was in a bank vault in Virginia for safekeeping.


40 posted on 10/01/2012 8:40:39 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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