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Bloomberg on Art Theft

June 4, 2014 by Marion Maneker

Bloomberg on Art Theft

 

The ladies at In the Loop tried to provide an overview of art theft today. They did a pretty good job running the gamut from the Gardner heist to Gundlach to Knoedler but they couldn’t help but mangle a few things. The funniest was pointing out that Steve Martin had owned one of the Beltracchi works (a fake Campedonck)—which is correct—but suggesting that Martin sold the work at a loss because it was found to be a fake when, in reality, Martin sold the work at a loss long before he discovered it had been painted by Beltracchi.

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