Hello, your Friday Afternoon Challenge again with: The Art of the Loot!

[CTyankee]

Here are images referencing purloined art. Can you identify what happened? Which one did not “really” happen?

And remember, dear hearts, we do not cheat here.
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[joeybee12]

1. Let me just say....

I haven't a clue!

[CTyankee]

2. take a guess?

[joeybee12]

4. Let me ponder one and six and get back to you...

It might come to me on those two.

[jannyk]

3. Is 4 the Baghdad Museum?

...or do I now look foolish

[CTyankee]

10. No, you are RIGHT!

I recently ran across this pic in a book about stolen/looted art and was so taken with it that I had to use it! What a picture! The tank, the hole in the outside wall...all those treasures looted. What a terrible shame on US to let this happen!

[T S Justly]

5. David, Dellacroix, Freud, and Monet. K&R (nt)

[Mz Pip]

13. #3

That's Freud's portrait of Bacon.

[CTyankee]

16. Great! How do you know this work? It's been stolen for quite some time...

[Mz Pip]

18. I was at the Met in NYC

at the end of November. They had a bunch of paintings by Freud and by Bacon as well.

[CTyankee]

19. I didn't know it had been found! Do you know how this happened?

I was reading a book about stolen art and this was referenced as having been stolen and missing for some time. So I am wondering if this discovery is something recent!

[Mz Pip]

23. It hasn't been found

They are hoping it will be found. There are even "wanted" posters out there for it.

[pinboy3niner]

30. Wanted poster:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/8237234/Archive-the-story-of-Lucian-Freuds-stolen-portrait-of-Francis-Bacon.html

[jberryhill]

32. Mmmmm... Bacon!

[pinboy3niner]

33. My favorite art piece...

Yum!

[CTyankee]

36. Speck!

[elleng]

6. OMG, someone STOLE #6

and it wasn't MOI?

[Mz Pip]

8. No they didn't

[CTyankee]

11. It wasn't YOU?

My goodness...

[elleng]

7. #2 looks like some Bonaparte,

but that's all I've got for you!
OBVIOUSLY have to go BACK to the 'old' country!

[Tansy_Gold]

9. #1 Entry of the Laocoon into Paris

The entry into Paris of Laocoon, Apollo Belvedere, and other statues was celebrated on this famous Sèvres vase. Between 1798 and 1815 many more northern Europeans could see the Most Beautiful Statues in Paris than had ever been able to see them in Italy by engaging in a lengthy and expensive Grand Tour.


http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/sculpture/plastercasts/napoleon.htm

[CTyankee]

14. Correct, Tansy! Antoine Beranger was the artist. Note the position of the statue's right arm...

kind of interesting story there!

Rubens studied the Laocoon for his magnificent Antwerp Altarpiece.

This painting shows Napoleon's booty being paraded in Paris. He later had to give it back to the Vatican, where it can be seen today...

[Tansy_Gold]

12. #2 Wellington

Portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Francisco Goya.

[CTyankee]

15. Yup. Do you know this painting?

[Tansy_Gold]

17. Not the painting specifically.

But I knew it was Wellington.

[CTyankee]

20. that is interesting. I just wonder how you knew it was him...

[Tansy_Gold]

21. To tell you the truth, I'm not sure!

There are a lot of things I know by osmosis, and because I've read a lot of history, I've probably encountered the portrait before and just tucked it away in my subconscious. First thing I googled was Wellington, just automatically, without thinking about it.

I suspect, though, that I may have used it -- or one like it -- as an example of a portrait from that time period when describing a similar portrait in a novel I wrote some years back.

My brain is kind of like your great-grandmother's attic -- all kinds of weird, interesting shit up there that you never know when it'll prove useful!

[CTyankee]

22. wow, what is the title of your novel?

I'd love to find it and read it!

[Tansy_Gold]

26. Ah,but then I'd have to reveal who i really am

And I prefer to maintain at least a veneer of anonymity here on DU!

[pinboy3niner]

27. In this thread it's 'a Vermeer of anonymity'

[JDPriestly]

24. Anything to do with the Art of the Steal and the Barnes Museum?

[pinboy3niner]

25. #6 Monet's San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk. "stolen" in a movie

In 'The Thomas Crown Affair,' the painting is stolen by Pierce Brosnan.

[CTyankee]

29. Sure enough. It was stolen only in a movie. It didn't really happen!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

28. What? The Lucien Freud painting is NOT Rodney Dangerfield???

Dang......

[Staph]

31. Number five is . . .

the treasure of Troy, found by Heinrich Schliemann in 1873. Much of it was given to the Royal Museums of Berlin, and were later stolen by the Red Army in the final stages of World War II. The USSR denied having the treasure until 1993.

How did I know? There's a famous picture of Schliemann's wife wearing some of the jewelry. I recognized it as similar to the jewelry in the top of picture number five. The rest is cribbed from Wikipedia.

[pinboy3niner]

34. Nice work!

[CTyankee]

35. I was considering using that photo! It's so revealing about European lack of sensitivity to looting

the culture of "backward" countries! However, I too learned how famous the photo actually is and thought it would be better to go with a pic of the "stash."

Congrats on drawing that conclusion! It is such an interesting story, isn't it?