14 June 2012

Wrapped For Return

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A recent image bundle from Eric B included what appeared to be someone looking at the Mona Lisa inside a paper wrapped parcel. The JPEG had no info, only a number file. Online research ( here ) indicates this is not from the theft episode of 1911, rather it's the 1945 return of La Giaconda to the Louvre from its safe keeping in the countryside during World War 2. 

An unwrapping, overseen.


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Paintings in parcels: wrapped, returned and regarded. 

The image above reminds of another such reportage photo, from 1986, that of Patrick McCaughey looking into an open public locker at Flinders Street Station, Melbourne; regarding therein a wrapped parcel that a tip-off had claimed would contain the NGV's stolen Picasso painting, Weeping Woman. It did.


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