Урра! Гойу вернули!
Не зря я взывал и распоряжался! Вот что значит, ваш непокойный писатель во-время пошумел.
Тамариск, беру назад все свои гойские заявления. У нас всё есть.
Тата и Птица уже отпущены на свободу, благодаря чистосердечному молчанию.
Картину прибивают на место.
Вот статья во вчерашней газете BLADE.
Опять же, переводить некогда. Убиваю на работу.
Тут написано, что картину вернули. Позвонили и вернули.
Ребята приехали, а она лежит и готова.
А кто украл, и кто вернул неизвесто.
Оказывается, эту картину уже много раз крали.
Наверное, потому, что картина учит присматриватьчто за детьми, иначе они начинают играть в азартные игры. А отсюда до плохого недалеко.
Эта картина так и называется "Дети с картами".
Оставшись одни, дети режутся в карты. И только один мальчик играет в музыку.
Article published Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Museum's Goya recovered
Artwork found in New Jersey after call from tipster
By TAHREE LANE
BLADE STAFF WRITER
The Toledo Museum of Art's stolen painting by Spanish artist Goya, has been recovered intact in New Jersey,
but the thief has not been caught.
The heist appears to have been a simple cargo theft, the likes of which surge before the holidays, said Steven
Siegel, FBI special agent in the Newark, N.J., FBI office.
"They probably were looking for something like PlayStation 3s," said Mr. Siegel.
"There's no indication that this was an inside job."
The 1778 oil painting, insured for just over $1 million, was taken from the truck of a professional art transporter
that was parked overnight at a hotel in Stroudsburg, Pa., and discovered missing Nov. 8. Thanks to extensive
media coverage of the theft, a tipster called the FBI with a specific location in central New Jersey and by
Saturday morning it was in FBI hands, he said. Packing material was found at the site.
The piece, Children with a Cart, was en route to the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, where it was
loaned for an exhibit of Spanish painters that opened Friday.
It will be returned to Toledo after the FBI completes tests that will be done in the presence of a Toledo
museum expert, brought in to provide technical advice and to ensure the painting will not be damaged, he
said.
Once in Toledo, museum staff will scrutinize it for damage. The museum has said this was its first theft in 105
years.
The FBI will release more details after the thief or thieves are arrested.
Because the theft of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes' work was widely publicized and immediately reported to
the international Art Loss Register and art experts around the world, a legitimate buyer would have been
impossible to find.
Don Bacigalupi, director of the Toledo museum, lauded the FBI and law enforcement officials for doing an
exemplary job.
"We are ecstatic that the painting has been recovered, and we look
forward to bringing the Goya home and sharing it again with our
community," he said in a news release.
Added Guggenheim director, Lisa Dennison: "The success of "Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso:
Time, Truth, and History" is made all the sweeter by the recovery of this treasured painting."
Toledo museum spokesman Jordan Rundgren said the museum is already thinking about how to celebrate the
Goya's safe return. "As soon as the FBI releases the painting to us, the museum will determine and announce
a date for the painting's reinstallation at TMA," she wrote in an e-mail.
The insurer had offered a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the recovery of the artwork.
Whether the tipster will receive the reward will be the insurer's decision, said the FBI's Mr. Siegel.
Purchased in 1959 from the New York art house Wildenstein, Children with a Cart was one of six preparatory
designs Goya made from which tapestries would be woven for a royal residence just outside Madrid, said
Nigel Glendinning, a Goya expert at the Queen Mary University of London.
From the designs, often of everyday subjects, weavers made tapestries, he said. These canvases did not
reflect the tone that the artist's work would take on in later years, Mr. Glendinning said.
"Stylistically these are relatively early works and they are easier on the eye," he said in a telephone interview
from England. "There is not the sort of darker undercurrent that in modern times is what people find attractive
about Goya."
The recent theft was not the first time Children with a Cart was stolen. After it was used to create the wall
hangings, it was eventually transferred to a storage space in the Royal Palace in Madrid where it was stolen in
January, 1870.
The painting was not recovered but eventually made its way to public and private collections in other countries,
Mr. Glendinning said.
Its value is difficult to determine, but he said Children with a Cart an important work simply because it's a Goya
original.
"I think that any painting where Goya's hand has been at work in this - it's not like a copy, this has actually had
Goya's hand on it - that in itself has an extraordinary value," he said.
Staff Writer Rod Lockwood contributed to this report.
Contact Tahree Lane at:
tlane@theblade.com or 419-724-6075.
