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Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1985, Willem de Kooning's "Woman-Ochre," one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, was cut from its frame at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. 32 years later, the painting was found hanging in a New Mexico home.
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
A museum director walks into work one morning to discover that the entire collection of porcelain, old documents, and paintings is gone. He calls the local police, and examining magistrate Antoine Verlaque sets out to learn the thief's identity. Verlaque wonders if this could have something to do with the recent robbery of Madame de Montbarbon's apartment. He is distracted by the impending of birth of his first child with his wife, Marine Bonnet....
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"For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Staephane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years-in museums and cathedrals all over Europe-Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief,...
4) Gambit
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022].
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Hong Kong, a dapper English cat burglar enlists the aid of a Eurasian dancer to help him in an elaborate scheme to grab an age-old artifact from the heavily secured palace of a powerful Middle Eastern tycoon. Unfortunately, the foolproof scheme begins to backfire shortly after it starts and the duo must pull out all the stops if they hope to come out on top.
5) The Mona Lisa vanishes: a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
A narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world-and how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all.
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 23
Description
"Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West"--
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"For years, there have been whispers that, before his death, Van Gogh completed a final self-portrait. Curators and art historians have savored this rumor, hoping it could illuminate some of the troubled artist's many secrets, but even they have to concede that the missing painting is likely lost forever. But when Luke Perrone, artist and great-grandson of the man who stole the Mona Lisa, and Alexis Verde, daughter of a notorious art thief, discover...
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Publisher
Editorial Planeta Méxicana
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
"México, 1935. Cuando descubre que Diego le es infiel con su hermana Cristina, Frida, que atraviesa un periodo de depresión ligado a su imposibilidad de ser madre, utiliza el dolor como inspiración para crear La mesa herida, una enigmática pintura de gran formato que años después formará parte de la primera exposición de artistas mexicanos en la Unión Soviética. Moscú, 1947. Olga, una burócrata rusa con una existencia tranquila y comprometida...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiv, 408 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Göring to Hitler's art looting agency in Paris, he went on to help supervise the systematic theft and distribution of more than thirty thousand artworks, taken largely from French Jews, and to assist Göring in amassing an enormous private art collection. By the 1950s Lohse was officially denazified but was back in the art dealing world, offering...
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 2
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
381 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
A sometime Israeli spy and now art restorer finds himself in a spirla of events involving stolen art, an old suicide, trail of killings some his own and an assassin that he himself trained.
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