No Deathbed Confession Expected Re: Gardner Art Heist, Italian Police Recover Van Goghs, and More Fresh News
Rembrandt van Rijn’s (1606-1669) The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, painted in 1633, one of 13 paintings stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston on March 18, 1990
News and updates from around the arts and auction community:
- On March 18, 1990, two intruders posing as police officers stole artworks valued at $500 million from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The last living “person of interest” in the baffling, 26-year-old case is said to be in failing health … but does he know anything, and will he talk? [Read more from the Boston Globe]
- Housing is expensive in France – but there’s a new alternative to consider: the slammer. The French finance ministry’s website is offering for sale a late-19th-century prison that “needs renovating.” Apparently there are quite a few such prisons available, since French law forbids demolishing protected buildings. [Read more from AFP via Art Daily]
- Italian police investigating suspected Italian mobsters for cocaine trafficking found two unexpected surprises hidden in a farmhouse near Naples: two Van Gogh paintings that vanished in a 2002 nighttime heist at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum. [Read more from the Van Gogh Museum]
- Sarah Palin made a tidy $525,000 profit by flipping her vacation home in Arizona. The multi-level stucco house sits on 4.4 walled and gated area in Scottsdale’s horse country. Nicer than you might have expected? [Read more from TopTenRealEstateDeals.com
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