Hi people! How are you doing? Are you doing well in school or work? I hope there’s no problem with anything. Well, well, well! Nowadays, isn’t it typical for us to worry about being assaulted in our homes? Especially on holidays where you can’t monitor everything that happens in your house because of all the noise and people who is celebrating outside? Yeah, and we do that since it is true that there are many thefts in holidays and so. But would you believe me if I tell you that actually it had happened to a museum before? Indeed, Oxford’s Ashmolean museum had being assaulted many times, but one time did happen during New Year’s festivities. Yes people, the 1st of January of 2000, the painting Auvers-sur-Oise by Paul Cezanne was taken in no longer than 10 minutes during the “Happy New Year”. (THE INDEPENDENT)
Well, I have to say that even though it was a bad starter for Ashmolean museum, not only for the New Year, but also for the new millennium, the heist was well done. If you imagine a movie of art heists were there are people who walks in the roofs and then enter with a smoke canister and stuff, you’re kind of describing Auvers-sur-Oise’s theft. I found out that it is unknown if it was only one person or a gang of thieves, but it is known that either of them entered the museum through the glass roof and used a rope ladder into the gallery. It seems that they came through the roofs of the university buildings, I mean, they were literally jumping building to building so that it was easier to enter the museum and get the painting. Once they got into the museum, they used the smoke canister (that made the guards unable to watch) took the painting, and left. That’s why they weren’t able to avoid the theft to happen, and when the gas was gone, so was the thief. It was no longer than 10 minutes, at most. (BBC News)(THE INDEPENDENT)
Shocking? I think it is, I mean, it really looks like a movie or something! But what’s more surprising is that until today Paul Cezanne’s Auvers-sur-Oise painting hasn’t being founded. It is said that it cost around £3m and that it was robbed so that it can be sold to an art collector. (BBC News)
Hope you like it and found it interesting! Check that not only we can be assaulted during a holiday, but a museum too… Have a nice week and see later! :D
Hope you like it and found it interesting! Check that not only we can be assaulted during a holiday, but a museum too… Have a nice week and see later! :D
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BBC News. Hunt for stolen Cezanne. Saturday, 1 de January de 2000. <<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/586834.stm>>
THE INDEPENDENT. Auvers-sur-Oise by Paul Cezanne. Monday, 19 de December de 2005. <<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/a-century-of-art-heists-520068.html>>
Hi Epy! I really liked your post! I think it's unbelievable that this happened, because it looks like a movie or a TV show. Something funny is that this happened on the first day of the year, the first day of the century, or better said... the first year of the millennium! What a way to start a new era. I find it kind of funny to imagine the thieves, running and jumping in the roofs, trying to get to the museum. And then the gas! It's like when in movies magicians use gas to smoke the room and they suddenly disappear, I can believe they did this... and the worse thing is that it worked! I can't believe they got to steal the painting and it's still missing, after almost a decade. I can understand that some paintings were stolen in the 20's or 30's, because security wasn't good at museums, and paintings didn't had the protection they have nowadays. But this happened only ten years ago! How they got to steal it in less than ten minutes without even being seen! Well, this is one of the situations that will stain not only his museum, but also other museums reputation.
ResponderEliminarAnother funny thing is to imagine what may be happening with the painting today... It probably is in some people's house, or maybe it was sold to some black market buyer. However, it can be also possible that the painting was destroyed (accidentally or on purpose), and now is just garbage. We will never be able to know what really happened to it. However maybe someday, maybe tomorrow, or maybe in ten years... the painting will appear and will be in the museum again.
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Hi Epy!
ResponderEliminarWow Epy, how come that people can stop in the holidays for steal, I mean is a holyday no one work! But well what we can do about that, many people don’t understand that painting are invaluable.
Continue doing well un you blog and have a nice weekend.
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