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Related: About this forumOne year later: The recovery of the stolen Woman-Ochre
Willem de Kooning's signature on the painting "Woman-Ochre". The painting was cut from its frame and declared missing before being found 30 years later.
At 4:30 a.m. last August, Brian Seastone received a life-changing phone call. The voice on the other end of the line informed the University of Arizona chief of police that Woman-Ochre, a painting stolen from the UA Museum of Art over 30 years ago, had been recovered at a location just three hours away.
I woke up really quick after that, Seastone said. I think there was a smile that broke out ear-to-ear. I dont think I had ever had one quite that big. All I could say to myself was, Its finally coming home.
The day after Thanksgiving, 1985, a nameless pair a man and a woman in a headscarf entered the UAMA as it opened its doors. The woman chatted with the security guard while her partner went upstairs. No more than fifteen minutes later, they left in a hurry with the painting rolled up beneath a coat.
They escaped in a copper-colored car and disappeared with the painting.
http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2018/08/a-woman-ochre-1-year-ann
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One year later: The recovery of the stolen Woman-Ochre (Original Post)
Ptah
Aug 2018
OP
Well, looking at the photo in the link below, someone put something over on someone.
3Hotdogs
Aug 2018
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3Hotdogs
(12,391 posts)1. Do they really want that back? Looks plug-ugly to me.
raging moderate
(4,305 posts)2. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Beauty is truth. We can rejoice with these people that they have recovered something that speaks some beautiful truth to them.
3Hotdogs
(12,391 posts)4. Whatever. I notice however, you ain't sticking up for the painting, itself.
raging moderate
(4,305 posts)5. It isn't clear enough what the painting looks like.
Starry Night by Van Gogh, would look like a bleached shop rag at that angle.
3Hotdogs
(12,391 posts)9. Well, looking at the photo in the link below, someone put something over on someone.
Yeah, beauty in the eye.... but it's still plug-ugly.
brush
(53,789 posts)10. Please stop embarrassing yourself. That painting is a masterpiece and...
de Kooning was a long-recognized genius. You might try researching him.
ret5hd
(20,499 posts)3. Of course it does. Bless your heart.
Ptah
(33,032 posts)7. "Woman-Ochre" is valued at approximately $100 million
Kali
(55,014 posts)6. Such an interesting story.
Ptah
(33,032 posts)8. Not quite the Thomas Crown Affair, yet very fascinating.