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CTyankee

(68,273 posts) Fri Jan 20, 2012, 05:59 PM Jan 2012

Hello, your Friday Afternoon Challenge again with: The Art of the Loot! [View all]

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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Hello, your Friday Afternoon Challenge again with: The Art of the Loot! [View all] CTyankee Jan 2012 OP

Let me just say.... joeybee12 Jan 2012 #1

take a guess? CTyankee Jan 2012 #2

Let me ponder one and six and get back to you... joeybee12 Jan 2012 #4

Is 4 the Baghdad Museum? jannyk Jan 2012 #3

No, you are RIGHT! CTyankee Jan 2012 #10

David, Dellacroix, Freud, and Monet. K&R (nt) T S Justly Jan 2012 #5

#3 Mz Pip Jan 2012 #13

Great! How do you know this work? It's been stolen for quite some time... CTyankee Jan 2012 #16

I was at the Met in NYC Mz Pip Jan 2012 #18

I didn't know it had been found! Do you know how this happened? CTyankee Jan 2012 #19

It hasn't been found Mz Pip Jan 2012 #23

Wanted poster: pinboy3niner Jan 2012 #30

Mmmmm... Bacon! jberryhill Jan 2012 #32

My favorite art piece... pinboy3niner Jan 2012 #33

Speck! CTyankee Jan 2012 #36

OMG, someone STOLE #6 elleng Jan 2012 #6

No they didn't Mz Pip Jan 2012 #8

It wasn't YOU? CTyankee Jan 2012 #11

#2 looks like some Bonaparte, elleng Jan 2012 #7

#1 Entry of the Laocoon into Paris Tansy_Gold Jan 2012 #9

Correct, Tansy! Antoine Beranger was the artist. Note the position of the statue's right arm... CTyankee Jan 2012 #14

#2 Wellington Tansy_Gold Jan 2012 #12

Yup. Do you know this painting? CTyankee Jan 2012 #15

Not the painting specifically. Tansy_Gold Jan 2012 #17

that is interesting. I just wonder how you knew it was him... CTyankee Jan 2012 #20

To tell you the truth, I'm not sure! Tansy_Gold Jan 2012 #21

wow, what is the title of your novel? CTyankee Jan 2012 #22

Ah,but then I'd have to reveal who i really am Tansy_Gold Jan 2012 #26

In this thread it's 'a Vermeer of anonymity' pinboy3niner Jan 2012 #27

Anything to do with the Art of the Steal and the Barnes Museum? JDPriestly Jan 2012 #24

#6 Monet's San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk. "stolen" in a movie pinboy3niner Jan 2012 #25

Sure enough. It was stolen only in a movie. It didn't really happen! CTyankee Jan 2012 #29

What? The Lucien Freud painting is NOT Rodney Dangerfield??? Manifestor_of_Light Jan 2012 #28

Number five is . . . Staph Jan 2012 #31

Nice work! pinboy3niner Jan 2012 #34

I was considering using that photo! It's so revealing about European lack of sensitivity to looting CTyankee Jan 2012 #35