http://animalnewyork.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:45:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://animalnewyork.com/2008/08/the-fbis-stolen-art-collection/ http://animalnewyork.com/2008/08/the-fbis-stolen-art-collection/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:17:17 +0000 ANIMAL http://247animal.dreamhosters.com/2008/08/the-fbis-stolen-art-collection/ When William Kingsland died in 2006, he left behind a treasure trove of artwork, but “no will…and no apparent heirs to claim the floor-to-ceiling stacks of paintings and art works crammed into his one-bedroom apartment,” according to the FBI. After hiring Christie’s to help sell the work, the auction house did some investigating and discovered that many of the pieces were reported stolen in the 60s and 70s—so much for the FBI’s, intricately logo’d 13 agent strong Art Crime Team. The Feds later learned that Williams Kingsland was actually born Melvyn Kohn and that he choose Kingsland because “it had a more literary sound to it and would help him gain acceptance among Manhattan’s upper crust.” The FBI has compiled a neat online gallery and is urging the public to take a look and see if any of the work looks familiar including some Picassos, like this one (pictured right).
Pablo Picasso “Tete de Femme”

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