![]() Hemlock is played by a ridiculously young Clint Eastwood. ![]() He displays them in a special gallery under his home in a renovated Gothic church on Long Island. Jonathan Hemlock collects paintings he has purchased from the black market. There’s Trevanian’s “The Eiger Sanction,” in which art professor Dr.The painting was stolen from London’s National Gallery after the book was written but right before the movie began filming. Julius No (Joseph Wiseman) has Francisco Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington in his island headquarters. These fictional collectors abound, however: James Bond admires the Duke of Wellington Massachusetts is one of the top three states for art theft, along with New York and California.Rembrandt is the artist whose works are stolen most frequently.90% of all museum art thefts use insider information. ![]() Here are some more things that we learned: Vermeer’s “ The Concert” is the single most valuable painting ever stolen, followed by Rembrandt’s S torm on the Sea of Galilee, the only seascape he ever painted. Taken were 13 works of art, including three Rembrandts, a Vermeer-one of only 34 in existence–and a portrait by Edouard Manet. That’s one of the facts we heard, along with the news that the Gardner Heist was the biggest property theft anywhere, ever. Perfect timing! The Gardner Museum HeistĪnthony Amore is the author, along with Tom Mashberg, of “ Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists.” Like most folks in Massachusetts, I remember the 1990 Gardner Museum Heist but I didn’t know that two of the most valuable paintings ever stolen were included in the theft. Traffic was bad and we were worried that we would miss the beginning of his talk but we actually walked in just as Mr. Amore talk about art theft in general and the Gardner Museum Heist in particular at the Roslindale Library. Last week I went with my friend Alane to hear Anthony M.
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