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This is The Concert, the most expensive and rare painting ever to be stolen and never recovered.
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Heisted from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1980 this painting is one of less than three dozen paintings by Johannes Vermeer. Super interesting story and a very fine painting. The thieves also stole an imperial eagle used by Napeoleon to lead his troops into battle
More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concert_(Vermeer)
Highly recommend This Is A Robbery on Netflix and the Last Seen podcast. Both detail the heist. The museum still has the empty frames on display.
Is that Nandor?
I’m not sure if it is the most expensive painting to be stolen.
Aren’t all paintings rare? Like there is only one right?
So beautiful. Light comes out of it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/AcNn7CZ6Pi A link to where he got this info. Good thread.
Who r the modern day artist of our time?
How very interesting that you post a pic of it, OP. Very interesting, indeed. 🤔
This looks like it may have had some steganography done, my eyes are saying there is something behind this, the blur. I’m not sure what process would need to be done to extract it though.
I remember seeing it, and Rembrandt’s “Storm on the Sea of Galilee” at the Gardner before they were stolen. Both of them are impressive. The empty frames still hang in their original locations. So sad.
Trivia: if you look carefully in “Storm”, you’ll see Rembrandt in the boat. He’s the only person looking directly at you (the viewer).
I’m just marveling at how there are paintings inside the painting.
Like, are they representative of actual historical paintings, or are they completely original and merely exist as nested artifacts?
Watch the documentary “Tim’s Vermeer” about one theory into how Vermeer painted the way he did.
wait a minute OP.. how do you have a picture of it?!
I just listened to a podcast episode about this today (MFM)
The Rembrandt that was stolen at the same time is arguably more important.
What makes it rare compared to any other one of a kind painting?
How can anything be most rare? Aren’t all original paintings one of a kind?
Can someone explain how black markets work in an ELI50?
Found it
That’s a Vermeer, isn’t?
Did you also just listen to the most recent My Favorite Murder episode? đź‘€
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Is that Nandor the Relentless in the chair? Maybe you can find the painting somewhere in Staten Island.
Probably in the British museum…
Aren’t all original paintings equally rare?
The paintings were stolen by Brian Michael McDevitt and burned in the fire place of his friends California home.
I mean each painting is equally rare, right? Since there’s only one of them.
I went to the Vermeer exhibition in Amsterdam this year, hands down one of the best I’ve been to. What I never realised was how much he reused the same room and props for all his paintings, fun to see them reappearing here!