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With three agencies prowling, two French and one Swiss, it is merely a matter of time. No one gets away with bold crimes for long. Luck always runs out, it’s inevitable. The couple is going to get caught.
— May 05, 2024 05:04PM
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The crime on Darties’s list that feels closest to terrorism may be the 1996 theft of a portrait by Corneille de Lyon, a court painter during the reign of François I, the famously art-struck French king. It was François who purchased the Mona Lisa directly from Leonardo da Vinci’s studio, for four thousand gold coins, which is why the indelible work, created by an Italian, hangs in France.
— May 05, 2024 05:00PM
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Runners-up for the most stolen artist include Salvador Dalí, Andy Warhol, and Joan Miró, but none approach Picasso’s total of about 1,000 swiped works. This includes the theft of 118 Picassos at once, from an exhibition at the Papal Palace in Avignon, France, in 1976.
— May 02, 2024 01:46PM
