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The Painting Thief

Recently a man in Paris nearly got away with stealing several paintings from the Louvre.
However, after planning the crime, breaking in, evading
security, getting out and escaping with the goods, he was captured only two streets away when his little van ran out of petrol.

When asked how he could mastermind such a crime and then make such an obvious error, he replied:


"I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh."


Various Stolen Works...
In various newspapers and the teletext service was a story which stated that there are currently 491 missing Picassos, 342 missing Miros and 152 missing Rembrandts, according to the Art Loss Register.
It all started when "The Scream" was stolen..again.


TOP SELLING DECEASED ARTISTS
1. LS Lowry
2. Monet
3. Alan Ingham
4. Russell Flint
5. John Miller
6. Rothko
7. Van Gogh
8. Picasso
9. Klimt
10. Matisse
Source: Art Business Today May 2005


More soon

 

Edinburgh

As Others See Us

30 June - 29 July 2007 RSA Finlay Room, Admission free
Mon - Sat 10 - 5, Sun 12 - 5

Twelve artists – twenty four portraits

As Others See Us celebrates the long tradition of artist’s portraiture. Artists whose work has specific links with the Highlands have been invited to create both a self portrait and a portrait of another artist. There will be a full colour catalogue with images, short artist’s bios and statements. As many of the artists were required to explore outside of their usual working boundaries, the catalogue essays reflect on how they responded to this challenge of being both the observer and the observed. In partnership with the Highland Council Exhibitions Unit and Highland 2007.

The artist pairings are:

John Byrne RSA – Steven Campbell

Calum Colvin RSA – John Bellany HRSA

Gordon Robin Brown – Jennifer Houliston

Allan Macdonald – Eugenie Vronskaya

Craig Mackay – Pat Semple

Alex Main – David Eustace

As Others See Us will also tour to:

The Swanson Gallery, Thurso - 4 – 25 August 2007

Inverness Museum & Art Gallery - 1 – 29 September 2007

Please call back..more updates due


QUOTES

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."

Anna Freud

"You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus."

Mark Twain


A Sculptor chipping away at an equestrian statue was asked how he made such fine works.
He replied:
"I just chip away everything that doesn't look like a horse."

Unknown


 

 

 


 
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