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Post by epicfai on May 20, 2010 5:54:28 GMT -8
Wonder if any Picassos will pop up in the 'Mailbag' thread?.....
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Post by steveinca on May 20, 2010 8:22:18 GMT -8
Wonder if any Picassos will pop up in the 'Mailbag' thread?..... haha! I'd love to take a look into the crazy world of high ticket art on the black market. Who's buying these? How are the heists planned? I can picture extremely wealthy people with collections of stolen art worthy of museums hanging in their homes. Some have argued that the real Mona is not in the Louvre, rather in someone's personal collection. What confuses me is that the people who can afford to buy these stolen pieces can afford to buy non stolen masterpieces. I wonder if these thieves are hired to steal specific pieces for the buyers. Regardless, every time I read about an art heist involving the masters a combination of feelings come to me. It's very 007'sh, but a shame that these pieces may never be seen again. Very selfish of these stolen art collectors.
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Post by cluttergeoff on May 21, 2010 0:53:23 GMT -8
Ha ha yes it's all very Thomas Crown affair.
Apparently another Banksy has been stolen in a burglary of Kate Moss's home (alongside other undisclosed art)
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Post by rg22 on May 21, 2010 4:31:50 GMT -8
the idea of a bond style villain with a private room full of stolen van goghs is a myth that only exists in the movies.
there is no evidence that any high profile paintings are stolen to order for some shady collector.
they are instead used as collateral for other criminal transactions between gangs, and are only worth money as ransom pieces. ie: pay up or it will be destroyed.
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Post by sleepboy on May 21, 2010 7:01:08 GMT -8
Apparently another Banksy has been stolen in a burglary of Kate Moss's home (alongside other undisclosed art) I wonder if that's because her collection was written about. Maybe it's better no one knows if you are a high profile collector, what you have that is.
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Post by suckerpunch on May 21, 2010 10:20:29 GMT -8
Its like the movies with underground gangsters with large stolen art collections.
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Post by sleepboy on Feb 5, 2011 21:49:12 GMT -8
Stolen from the THIS gallery - thislosangeles.com/blog/2011/02/we-need-your-help/Hello friends, We have some very unfortunate and sad news and we need your help to solve it. Last night towards the end of our These Friends opening (after the crowds had left and we were cleaning up) someone stole a piece off the wall and bolted out the front door. It was Jason Lee’s one of a kind 8×10 Polaroid of the late Dennis Hopper. The artist is putting up a $25,000 dollar reward to anyone who brings it back to us. This is a very sentimental one of a kind piece for obvious reasons. The thief can come forward anonymously and charges won’t be pressed against him. Please get the word out and help us get Jason’s art back. You can call us 323-747-5301 or email this@thislosangeles.com with any information. Thanks. P.S. This piece was not for sale, it’s extremely sentimental to Jason and he just wanted to share it with the art community by having it in the show.
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Post by voleboy on Feb 5, 2011 23:39:44 GMT -8
Low, really low.
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Post by sleepboy on Feb 7, 2011 11:42:21 GMT -8
I don't understand why the reward is so high. Is that photo worth that much? Are they really gonna pay the person who took that $25K, no questions asked?
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Post by commandax on Feb 7, 2011 12:01:29 GMT -8
It's a Polaroid taken by Jason Lee ( the actor), who put up the reward for the photo's sentimental value to him. As a Polaroid, it is a one-of-a-kind memory of time he spent with someone who has passed on. I assume it meant a lot to him. I guess it's like someone putting up a $10,000 reward for the return of a mutt... it's not about the monetary value, it's about the emotional value.
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Post by epicfai on Feb 7, 2011 13:43:39 GMT -8
surely the gallery had cameras? that really sucks. it was a great photo too...some seriously negative karma for the thief.
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Post by mistersmith on Feb 8, 2011 17:34:22 GMT -8
the idea of a bond style villain with a private room full of stolen van goghs is a myth that only exists in the movies. there is no evidence that any high profile paintings are stolen to order for some shady collector. they are instead used as collateral for other criminal transactions between gangs, and are only worth money as ransom pieces. ie: pay up or it will be destroyed. I'd like to see some sort of reference, anywhere, to the "collateral between gangs" claim. Weren't a few recent art thefts traced back to oil sheiks that wanted stuff for themselves and paid someone to get it for them? And why would an international crime organization give a crap about a painting if it meant an extra couple of million in their pockets? Unless you're a rich guy with an underground gallery of stolen art and want to cover your tracks...
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Post by rhinomilk on Feb 8, 2011 18:13:21 GMT -8
maybe his ex-wife sent out a henchman to steal the photo in an attempt to erase all traces of him
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Post by gamma888 on Feb 10, 2011 17:23:08 GMT -8
Found this on SF Arts Quarter #4 recently: This was in one of the ads there and there's an article on the previous pages that a collector, Chris Linder, said "losing the two Barry McGee artworks definitely inspired anonymous rage in me towards the unkonwn thief. If I ever caught the not a very nice person, I would anesthetize him and then have a tattoo artist replcate the stolen imagery on their forehead." Seriously, how many McGee works have been stolen while Mcgee's alive???
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Post by artladval on Feb 14, 2011 11:55:54 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Aug 11, 2011 21:22:48 GMT -8
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Post by bmac on Sept 22, 2012 17:24:13 GMT -8
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Post by volvic on Sept 23, 2012 22:05:08 GMT -8
wow, quite a haul, id be annoyed
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Post by bmac on Sept 25, 2012 17:11:10 GMT -8
www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gundlach-art-20120925,0,3966577.story "Gundlach originally offered a $200,000 reward for information leading to the return of the paintings. He added $1 million for information leading to the return of a Mondrian painting called "Composition (A) En Rouge Et Blanc." He is offering $500,000 for the return of three other paintings, two by Joseph Cornell and one by Johns. Two of the pieces sold for a combined $8.7 million in recent years. The Mondrian painting sold at auction for $5.3 million in 2002, according to Sotheby's. Johns' "Green Target" sold for $3.4 million at Sotheby's in 2004. That painting was part of Johns' first solo show at Leo Castelli Gallery in New York and is very desirable because of that history."
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Post by bmac on Sept 27, 2012 18:59:35 GMT -8
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Post by bmac on Oct 17, 2012 10:28:16 GMT -8
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Post by saL on Oct 22, 2012 14:40:54 GMT -8
6 pieces by Ego Leonard were stolen from LAB ART Gallery, LA:
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Post by bmac on Nov 13, 2012 21:46:36 GMT -8
news.yahoo.com/4-stolen-paintings-found-south-africa-cemetery-154338888.htmlAn informer's tip led South African police to a private cemetery Tuesday where they found four paintings hundreds of miles away from where they had been stolen from a museum in the capital, authorities said. The tip is the latest twist in a heist that saw $2 million worth of art stolen Sunday from the Pretoria Art Museum
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