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Post by mkennedy on May 11, 2009 13:56:55 GMT -8
STOLEN ART Please help us find these art pieces by Lauren Gardiner. Sometime between 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM on Thursday, May 7, 2009 two paintings by Lauren Gardiner were brazenly stolen from La Luz de Jesus Gallery by one or more thieves. The two paintings, valued at $1750 had previously been purchased by clients, impacting not only the gallery but the artist and the patrons. If you have seen these pieces hanging in someone's home, been approached with an offer of sale, or overheard information that might hasten their recovery, please call us. A REWARD WILL BE GIVEN FOR THE RECOVERY OF THE PAINTINGS. NO QUESTIONS ASKED! You can call the gallery director's line: (323) 666-7667, or contact the LAPD Art Theft Detail at (213) 485-2524.  "The Duchess Tabitha" 5" x 7" Acrylic and gold leaf on wood $750  "Madame Margaritte and Fifi Pomme Fritte" 7" x 7" Acrylic and gold leaf on wood $1000 www.laluzdejesus.com
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Post by svenman on May 11, 2009 14:17:14 GMT -8
oh no. more art theft  this sucks so bad. i hope you guys are able to find the paintings. welcome to the board matt! |
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Post by devours on May 11, 2009 20:10:50 GMT -8
 That bites, sorry to hear that. |
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Post by rizza79 on May 11, 2009 23:55:51 GMT -8
wow. this is pretty low. this stuff baffles me.
is the problem really big enough for LAPD to have an Art Theft Detail Squad?
good luck to the gallery and everyone else involved. surprised nothing is on camera!!
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Post by sleepboy on Jul 26, 2009 10:22:22 GMT -8
This Chris Ryniak piece was stolen from the Mindstyle booth. When I went by, they had people guarding the customs and they had to take pictures for you if you handed them your camera. Sucks.  |
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Post by sylvia0rtiz on Jul 29, 2009 11:12:57 GMT -8
oh my god!!!!
did you guys ever find these paintings
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Post by sleepboy on Aug 5, 2009 8:58:45 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Aug 29, 2009 5:40:56 GMT -8
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Post by steveinca on Sept 11, 2009 23:19:37 GMT -8
Sucks...i'm sure they were insured. "Authorities are looking for art thieves who made off with a collection of Andy Warhol paintings from a private residence last week, police in Los Angeles, California, said Friday. Stolen Warhols, clockwise: Jack Nicklaus, O.J. Simpson, Tom Seaver, artwork owner Richard Weisman. 2 of 3 The stolen pieces included large pop-art portraits of several famous athletes, including tennis pro Chris Evert, basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, soccer legend Pelé and Major League Baseball pitcher Tom Seaver, police said. The multimillion-dollar collection had been displayed in the dining room of Richard Weisman, a Los Angeles businessman whose portait is among the missing items, police said. The theft was discovered by one of Weisman's employees and occurred between September 2 and 3, police said. A $1 million reward has been offered for information leading to the recovery of the art."-CNN    |
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Post by virtu on Sept 12, 2009 6:42:13 GMT -8
The OJ and Ali have a secondary life but the others would be almost impossible to sell unless you dropped the prices WAY, WAY below thier list/gallery prices.
I smell an insurance scam.
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Post by ken on Sept 13, 2009 9:56:24 GMT -8
Taken from today's New York Post via Animal New York: www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/couple_busted_with_stolen_painting_cEGa25QWnoPg4O7qLaixwOA Brooklyn couple was busted trying to sell a painting stolen off the wall of a Manhattan museum to an undercover cop, authorities said. Denis Ryjenko, 35, and his girlfriend, Natella Croussouloudis, 42, were arrested Sept. 3 as they tried to unload a small masterpiece, "Himalayas," by the prolific early 20th-century Russian artist Nicholas Roerich. One of them even told the "buyer" the painting was hot and warned him not to hang it on his gallery wall. NABBED: Denis Ryjenko (in artist's rendition) pleads guilty yesterday to possession of the stolen painting, "Himalayas" by Nicholas Roerich. The $125,000 painting had disappeared along with a second work by Roerich on June 24. The second piece -- titled "Talung Monastery" and worth $70,000 -- was mysteriously returned by mail to the Nicholas Roerich Museum on West 107th Street on Aug. 14. But investigators caught wind that the couple had "Himalayas" when an informant told them the pair had been showing it off in their Midwood apartment, saying they were hoping to sell it for $40,000. The informant told the couple he would help introduce them to a buyer, who was actually an undercover officer posing as an art collector. On Sept. 3, Ryjenko and Croussouloudis -- carrying the painting in a blue paper shopping bag -- traveled to a Lower East Side Starbucks to meet with the detective, police said. While Ryjenko waited outside, Croussouloudis met with the phony collector and asked for $20,000 for the painting. She even warned him that the work of art had been stolen and that he would be unable to freely display it in his gallery, police said. The cop then asked her to come with him to his gallery where he would give her the money. As she and Ryjenko walked with him up Allen Street, they were arrested. A law-enforcement source said the couple denied having stolen the painting. But Ryjenko, who has a long criminal record, pleaded guilty in Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday to criminal possession of stolen property in return for four months in jail. "I knew it was stolen," he told Judge Anthony Ferrara. "I didn't know if it was real or not." Croussouloudis, who is a German national, according to Correction Department records, waived her appearance and was held on $20,000 bail. The landlord of the building where the two had been living said they owed $7,500 back rent and had recently had their power and gas shut off for failure to pay their bills. |
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Post by rhinomilk on Nov 4, 2009 9:01:22 GMT -8
from a posting on thegiant.org THIS IAN FRANCIS PAINTING HAS BEEN STOLEN! IF YOU SEE THIS PAINTING PLEASE CONTACT THE LONDON POLICE AND BLK/MRKT ASAP. Needless to say, if you happen to find it, please do not alert the person/shop that it has been reported stolen before contacting authorities. And if possible, try to take hold of it if it is likely to disappear... Depending on his sophistication (or lack thereof), the thief may not know what he has, since it was most likely a simple wrapped package heist. DETAILS: The painting was being delivered to a collector on Friday and as the courier approached the front of the residence (and the building's porter) near Hyde Park, a stranger walked up posing as the "recipient's son" and convinced the courier that the package was his to collect. He signed his name Ben Bianchini, which has no correlation to the collector's name. The back of the painting has Ian's signature and the date it was created in pencil. THANK YOU! for keeping an eye out and please let us know if you have any ideas how we might reclaim this beautiful piece. BLK/MRKT Los Angeles: 310 837 1989 contact@blkmrktgallery.com  |
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Post by rivet on Nov 4, 2009 14:12:34 GMT -8
Wow, I can't even imagine the rage I'd feel if this happened to me. |
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Post by steveinca on Nov 4, 2009 14:57:20 GMT -8
from a posting on thegiant.org THIS IAN FRANCIS PAINTING HAS BEEN STOLEN! IF YOU SEE THIS PAINTING PLEASE CONTACT THE LONDON POLICE AND BLK/MRKT ASAP. Needless to say, if you happen to find it, please do not alert the person/shop that it has been reported stolen before contacting authorities. And if possible, try to take hold of it if it is likely to disappear... Depending on his sophistication (or lack thereof), the thief may not know what he has, since it was most likely a simple wrapped package heist. DETAILS: The painting was being delivered to a collector on Friday and as the courier approached the front of the residence (and the building's porter) near Hyde Park, a stranger walked up posing as the "recipient's son" and convinced the courier that the package was his to collect. He signed his name Ben Bianchini, which has no correlation to the collector's name. The back of the painting has Ian's signature and the date it was created in pencil. THANK YOU! for keeping an eye out and please let us know if you have any ideas how we might reclaim this beautiful piece. BLK/MRKT Los Angeles: 310 837 1989 contact@blkmrktgallery.com Curious.....in cases like this, what happens if the work isn't recovered? Meaning, does the buyer get his money back? Does the gallery take a hit? Are the paintings insured for full market value during shipping? |
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Post by jemappellekat on Nov 4, 2009 19:25:46 GMT -8
The gallery should fork over $$$ for insurance... it is solely the responsibility of the post company, though... as they didn't actually "ring" the doorbell, as I was just told by my friend's dad... but I myself am not 100% certain...
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Post by steveinca on Nov 5, 2009 17:47:46 GMT -8
The gallery should fork over $$$ for insurance... it is solely the responsibility of the post company, though... as they didn't actually "ring" the doorbell, as I was just told by my friend's dad... but I myself am not 100% certain... Wow, that's a sh!tty situation for everyone involved. A Francis og is pricey....gotta be at least a $10k piece. |
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Post by grotesqueanimal on Nov 7, 2009 4:59:41 GMT -8
Apart from the fact that this piece cannot be replaced (what a nightmare for every collector) one can really just hope that at least the painting was insured for full value during shipping.
I had a lot of pricey prints shipped to me that were declared as 10$ posters, so I would not have to pay customs fees, but this gave me sleepless nights - and it was "just" prints, not one-of-a-kind pieces.
I would not recommend this to anyone from overseas, and now I rather eat the extra fees.
Especially since I found out that with original artwork the customs taxes in Austria are only 10%, it is better to make sure the pieces are fully insured.
Does anyone know which shipping company is involved here?
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Post by droow2 on Nov 7, 2009 7:04:02 GMT -8
from blk/mrkt:
"the painting was not shipped from the states—it was being hand-delivered from Studio to Collector—therefore not crated, just wrapped for delivery. From the facts we have, it appears like an opportunistic grab—either by a random creep walking by or someone who literally waits around to pounce on deliveries in front of nice buildings."
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Post by gildoinc on Nov 13, 2009 15:31:02 GMT -8
Sucks...i'm sure they were insured. "Authorities are looking for art thieves who made off with a collection of Andy Warhol paintings from a private residence last week, police in Los Angeles, California, said Friday. Stolen Warhols, clockwise: Jack Nicklaus, O.J. Simpson, Tom Seaver, artwork owner Richard Weisman. 2 of 3 The stolen pieces included large pop-art portraits of several famous athletes, including tennis pro Chris Evert, basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, soccer legend Pelé and Major League Baseball pitcher Tom Seaver, police said. The multimillion-dollar collection had been displayed in the dining room of Richard Weisman, a Los Angeles businessman whose portait is among the missing items, police said. The theft was discovered by one of Weisman's employees and occurred between September 2 and 3, police said. A $1 million reward has been offered for information leading to the recovery of the art."-CNN Interesting development to the article Steve posted a while back: Owner cancels insurance claim on his missing Warhol “Athletes” set A $1m reward for information on the theft has also been cancelled By Georgina Adam | From Frieze daily edition, 16 Oct 09 Published online 16 Oct 09 In a surprise move, the Seattle-based art collector Richard Weisman has cancelled his insurance claim for a $25m set of Andy Warhol images that were stolen from his Los Angeles home last month. A $1m reward initially offered by his insurers has also been withdrawn. The silk-screen paintings are a series called “Athletes”; portraits of sports icons that the collector commissioned in 1977 directly from the artist. At the time he paid $800,000 for eight sets. News of the widely reported theft came as a shock to the organisers of “Warhol/Icon: the Creation of Image” in the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens (until 10 January). They had borrowed a set of “Athletes” from Weisman, and initially police were tipped off that they were the stolen ones. The guest curator Paul Moorhouse, of the National Portrait Gallery in London, thought the loan was off. “Then we discovered that Weisman had a second set which had been stolen,” he said. In fact, Weisman has four complete sets out of the original eight “Athletes”. The stolen set was taken from his Los Angeles home in early September; there was no sign of a break-in, and other more valuable works of art were left untouched nearby, Detective Don Hrycyk of the Los Angeles Police Department told The Art Newspaper. “Withdrawing the insurance claim is an unusual move,” said Hrycyk. “People can make what they want of it.” The investigation into the theft continues, he said, but it “depends on [Weisman’s] cooperation; he’s cut off contact with the insurance company and has not returned recent phone calls”. Attempts to reach Weisman were unsuccessful, but in a recent interview with the Seattle Times he said: “[Insurance investigators] turn you into a suspect. I just finally told them, ‘I’m not going to go through it for three to five years. Forget it’.” |
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Post by sleepboy on Mar 29, 2010 8:42:28 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on May 19, 2010 8:32:55 GMT -8
Moderator note: Posted by Cluttergeof in different threadThis is more of an FYI for people - two prints worth approx £16k have been stolen during a raid on Soho-based gallery Art Republic. Full story here: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8691261.stmThe prints to keep an eye out for are: "Happy Choppers" #118 / 750 "Nola" # 15 / 63
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Post by svenman on May 19, 2010 9:06:21 GMT -8
That sucks ass. Hopefully they will be recovered as they'll never be able to be sold on the open Market. Not so sure about that valuation though...
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Post by juggernut3 on May 19, 2010 14:08:22 GMT -8
At least they documented the exact number in the edition, so that people will have to know that they're stolen. Remember, when buying Banksy's that you ALWAYS ask for POW (email Dora) or Pest Control for authenticity of original ownership to verify that you're getting the legitimate thing. There are lots of fakes or in this case stolen prints on the market place. |
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Post by cluttergeoff on May 20, 2010 0:34:15 GMT -8
That sucks ass. Hopefully they will be recovered as they'll never be able to be sold on the open Market. Not so sure about that valuation though... Agreed the valuations of £7.5k for the Nola is a joke but regardless that gallery has much more high ticket items such as Hirst prints but they nabbed the Banksy's - suggests they knew what they were after/wanted. I doubt they'd ever appear on the market anyhow, even without the edition numbers being revealed. |
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Post by svenman on May 20, 2010 4:35:07 GMT -8
just saw this on the bbc website... news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/10130840.stmFive paintings by Picasso, Matisse and other great artists have been stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, police sources say. The paintings are estimated to be worth some 500m euros (£431m; $618m). They were taken overnight on Wednesday and reported missing early on Thursday, officials say. The museum, across the River Seine from the Eiffel Tower, has been cordoned off by investigators. Security camera footage reportedly shows someone entering the museum through a window during the night. Museum officials discovered the theft early on Thursday, when they found a smashed window and a broken padlock which had been cut to gain access to the five paintings. It is still unclear why the alarm systems did not alert staff earlier, reports the BBC's David Chazan in Paris. The five missing paintings are said to be Pigeon with Peas by Pablo Picasso, Pastoral by Henri Matisse, Olive Tree near Estaque by Georges Braque, Woman with a Fan by Amedeo Modigliani and Still Life with Chandeliers by Fernand Leger. |
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That bites, sorry to hear that.
