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Suspects Claim FBI Art Crimes Chief 'Ordered' Museum Theft
Telegraph - November 28th, 2011 02:31

Seven people on trial for stealing works by Monet, Sisley and Brueghel from a French museum say that the crime was instigated by Robert K. Wittman, the FBI's well-known art detective. The 2007 heist from Nice's Musée des Beaux Arts yielded the gun-toting thieves four paintings valued at upwards of 22 million euros...

Bob Thompson, Last Painting, 1966, oil on canvas, 55 1/2 x 63 3/4 in

Bob Thompson Drawings
Release Date: 27 November 2011
Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects and Martha Henry, Inc. present Bob Thompson Drawings an exhibition of drawings by Bob Thompson (1937-1966) that date from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s and includes Thompson’s last known work, a large drawing in oil paint on canvas after Titian. On view are ...

Cindy House, Moon Over Mount Mansfield, pastel on paper, 6" x 10"

The Cooley Gallery Announces a Special 25th Anniversary Holiday Exhibition: “Dear Santa, Please Bring Me All Paintings Great and Small!”
Release Date: 01 November 2011
The Cooley Gallery is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary with a special holiday exhibition: Dear Santa, Please Bring Me All Paintings Great and Small. Jeff Cooley, owner and director of the gallery notes, “We thought we’d pull out all the stops for this exhibition and combine two of ...

Lambing Snow, Oil on canvas by LAA Elected Artist Kim Muller-Thym.

Deck the Walls at the Lyme Art Association
Release Date: 03 November 2011
The Lyme Art Association’s most festive art exhibition and sale is their annual “Deck the Walls” holiday show, on view November 18, 2011 through January 7, 2012. More than 200 original works of art by member artists will be on display and priced to sell as holiday gifts. Artwork by newly ...

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