One year later: The recovery of the stolen Woman-Ochre

[Ptah]

Willem de Kooning's signature on the painting "Woman-Ochre". The painting was cut from its frame and declared missing before being found 30 years later.

At 4:30 a.m. last August, Brian Seastone received a life-changing phone call. The voice on the other end of the line informed the University of Arizona chief of police that Woman-Ochre, a painting stolen from the UA Museum of Art over 30 years ago, had been recovered at a location just three hours away.

“I woke up really quick after that,” Seastone said. “I think there was a smile that broke out ear-to-ear. I don’t think I had ever had one quite that big. All I could say to myself was, ‘It’s finally coming home.’”

The day after Thanksgiving, 1985, a nameless pair — a man and a woman in a headscarf — entered the UAMA as it opened its doors. The woman chatted with the security guard while her partner went upstairs. No more than fifteen minutes later, they left in a hurry with the painting rolled up beneath a coat.

They escaped in a copper-colored car and disappeared with the painting.

http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2018/08/a-woman-ochre-1-year-ann

[3Hotdogs]

1. Do they really want that back? Looks plug-ugly to me.

[raging moderate]

2. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Beauty is truth. We can rejoice with these people that they have recovered something that speaks some beautiful truth to them.

[3Hotdogs]

4. Whatever. I notice however, you ain't sticking up for the painting, itself.

[raging moderate]

5. It isn't clear enough what the painting looks like.

Starry Night by Van Gogh, would look like a bleached shop rag at that angle.

[3Hotdogs]

9. Well, looking at the photo in the link below, someone put something over on someone.

Yeah, beauty in the eye.... but it's still plug-ugly.

[brush]

10. Please stop embarrassing yourself. That painting is a masterpiece and...

de Kooning was a long-recognized genius. You might try researching him.

[ret5hd]

3. Of course it does. Bless your heart.

[Ptah]

7. "Woman-Ochre" is valued at approximately $100 million

[Kali]

6. Such an interesting story.

[Ptah]

8. Not quite the Thomas Crown Affair, yet very fascinating.