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“Wanted: the owners of 137 artworks discovered in an apartment in Manhattan, suspected stolen. The FBI is appealing for owners to come forward to claim the paintings and sculptures that were found in the Upper East Side – some of them stuffed under a bed – in one of the more unusual mysteries to fall to federal investigators.
“The artworks were found in the apartment of an occasional art writer and genealogist called William M V Kingsland, who died in March 2006, aged 62, leaving no will. His collection of about 300 pieces – including works by Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso and Odilon Redon – was handed to two auction houses to sell off.”But over the past 18 months the relatively straightforward story of an intestate private art collector has slowly turned into a deepening mystery of double identities and theft. The alarm was first sounded when a gallery owner bought a portrait by John Singleton Copley of the Second Earl of Bessborough for $85,000 (£ 42,000). Looking into its provenance, he found it had been stolen from Harvard University in 1971…”
The stolen art under the bed in The Guardian.
Maybe they’re all Sanyo? Bad ad joke.