Last night, a crafty super-thief lifted a record-large loot of museum art with an estimated worth of $600 million. UPDATE: NOT! CCTV captured a “heavily disguised, burly figure” leaping through a broken window of the Paris Museum of Modern Art.
The thief disabled a sophisticated alarm system, went unnoticed by three night guards and stole five famous paintings (Matisse, Picasso, and more!) by skillfully disassembling the frames instead of slicing out the canvas, as an amateur would.
Yet, the director of the neighboring Palais de Tokyo art museum seems to think whoever responsible are fools:
You cannot do anything with these paintings… These five paintings are un-sellable, so thieves, sirs, you are imbeciles, now return them.
Of course they are… And now, a preview of this year’s fine art black market expo:
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- The Pigeon with Peas, 1911-1912, by Pablo Picasso
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- The Artist’s Wife (Jeanne Huberterne), 1918, by Amedeo Modigliani
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- La Pastorale, 1905, by Henri Matisse
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- Nature Morte au Chandelier (Still Life with Chandelier), 1922, by Fernand Léger
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- L’Olivier pres de l’Estaque (Olive tree near Estaque), 1906, by Georges Braque
I doubt they'd have trouble finding someone to hock them off to – infact this was probably a commission for some fat rich guy sitting in his mansion who just HAD to have those particular ones. Kudos I say.
It's sad to say but there is selfish souless individal's who would desire to have all of these treasure's for
their selves just as the still missing artwork stollen during WW2 so hope the person responsible is caught and the artwork is recovered undamaged then he could probably make more money then he could in book royalties than could be gotten by trying to find a buyer for these "unsellable works of art"