[pepsionice]

It is odd...none of the pieces were ever recovered. Probably all sitting in some vault display area of some billionaire. One thing left out of the story....who paid the attorney fees for John Kerry?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Anyone check Fauxchohantas’ teepee?

[Stormdog]

“who paid the attorney fees for John Kerry?”

The taxpayers. He was court appointed.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

The story I’ve heard, from someone who knows people on both sides of the law in Boston, is that the whole thing was engineered by someone in jail, who hoped to use the paintings as a bargaining chip to get out. But the two guys he got to do the job got ripped off themselves, then the new owners found they were too hot to sell and too hot to keep, so they burned them. The idea that there are billionaires who buy paintings and hide them is a myth. The point of having trophy possessions like that is to show them off.

If you go to that museum, which is pretty cool, they still have the empty frames on the wall where the stolen paintings were.

[niteowl77]

It is odd...none of the pieces were ever recovered. Probably all sitting in some vault display area of some billionaire.

Maybe Madeline Albright is keeping it safe for the real owners.

[ConservativeDude]

funny, I remember this extremely well. I was a grad student at another Ivy League school (not Harvard..) and I was in the Gardner Museum the week before. I spent a lot of time looking at Rembrandt’s Sea of Galilee.

I often see that piece in art books, books about Rembrandt, etc. I often sigh when I see it, thinking, yeah, that one is now gone from the public.

And...in an episode of Blacklist, Raymond Reddington actually moves it around a bit. It was a nice touch by the writers/producers. I got to tell my wife the whole story (again) when I saw that episode. :)