Degas after the bath painting gardner museum
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Living near Boston, over the years I’ve followed the news about the art thefts from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum with great interest. Earlier this month the FBI announced that it knows the perpetrators of this crime but is unable to locate the thirteen paintings that were stolen in the middle of the night in March, 1990, paintings that are valued at hundreds of millions of dollars. Strange, but that’s the official line as of now.
In B. A. Shapiro’s thriller, The Art Forger, disgraced artist Claire Roth is approached and asked to make a copy of Edgar Degas’s After the Bath, one of the stolen paintings. The man who brings Claire the painting, Aidan Markel, is the owner of a prestigious art gallery in Boston. His plan is to sell the copy that Claire makes to a foreign buyer who has already agreed to purchase it. Of course, the foreign buyer thinks that what he’s getting is the original, not a twenty-first-century forgery.
Aidan won’t tell Claire how he’s come into possession of the masterpiece, saying only that it’s a win-win situation and that “there are many layers” between the art thieves and the person from whom he received After the Bath. He tells her that the buyer will be happy, Claire wil
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Isabella Stewart Writer Museum theft
1990 art pilferage in Boston
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I don’t know much about art and art forgery, so I have learnt a few things reading this book.
The beginning of the book starts with the heist taken place in Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. In the early hours of March 18, 1990, guards at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston admitted two men posing as police officers responding to a disturbance call. Once inside, the men tied up the guards and, over the next hour, stole 13 works of art valued at $500 million – the largest-value theft of private property in history. Despite efforts by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and multiple probes around the world, no arrests have been made and no works have been recovered.
Altogether, thirteen pieces were stolen at an estimated loss of $500 million, making the robbery the largest private property theft in history. Empty frames remain hanging in the museum, both in homage to the missing works and as placeholders for when they are returned.
The paintings by Degas that were stolen are “Three Mounted Jockeys”, “La sortie du Pelage”, “Cortege aux Environs de Florence”, and “Program for an Artistic Soiree”.
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a museum in the Fenway-Kenmore neighb