Los Angeles (ap)-on the surface looks like an open and shut down a rogue dropped in to think the art of Carlton's exhibition, also scattered curators and other robbed precious hundreds of old Rembrandt paintings and and its bolts.
Obviously, looking for small pen and ink work, by the Dutch master too hot fence rogue has a second thought. They gave up it, not damaged a church, on the other side of town.
Then began to real mystery.
Three weeks after the recovery framed, 11-6 inches drawing "the judgment," authorities can't determine whether really is, or if it even Rembrandt, belong to art dealers, showing that it and other work in the ritz-carlton AnDeEr Mary.
Los Angeles county, sheriff's spokesman Steve whitmore said. "" they have to show us things to prove themselves, and they don't have to do that. He said authorities have keep suspected of Rembrandt, until the ownership of the lock and key problems solved.
Linearis institute, it says it has work, it's worth $250000, officials did not respond to phone calls and e-mails.
However, the institute's lawyer William klein said, Linearis buy "ruling, from a legitimate the seller. He said the officials, the research institute, just don't want to say who is.
"It really is so of commercial secret," Mr Klein told the Associated Press. "We don't think we need to reveal what is our business secret retrieve."
He admitted, this research institute without any formalities clues of the art world (called the speech), to prove the source "judgment" is really Rembrandt. But, he added, in Linearis officials do not believe that this is the problem, the authorities should think.
Art appraisers and other experts said they couldn't find a "trial" in any directory database or records of Rembrandt's works, who created the 1669 years before his death, the oil painting sketch and etching hundreds of listed.
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Police are investigating the theft, but whitmore said Linearis officials told the authorities, and they don't interest of people robbed drawings prosecution.
"I'm curious," he said.
Mr Klein says Linearis is the most interested in the drawing back at this time to get, although he added that if the investigation, "we will catch a thief as the sheriff department and the district attorney's office of do whatever they need to do this in the interests of justice."
At the same time, he said he would like to be able to reach a compromise, let drawing returns. If he can't, he said he will take the sheriff's department to court.
Even in the art world, who owns what and how they get it appear frequently, Rembrandt caused the problem of mystery curiosity.
It's not as unusual as one might think a low-level thief to drop a exhibition and rob things in, said Anthony love jasmine, who is in the Boston museum of Isabella Stewart Gardner stealing the book ", the author's security cooperation department leader. "Rembrandt
He pointed out that, just a month before stealing someone walked into the San Francisco Rembrandt, art gallery, and a $200000 Picasso. Police arrested the man quickly in New Jersey, they say has been link to since June at least half a dozen other art theft.
Amore said, Rembrandt and Picasso's work is especially popular target, because everyone has heard of these artists and know their works sell a huge sum of money. He said that in the past 100 years, at least 81 Rembrandt have stolen.
Jasmine, love, is unusual to continue, the institute did not immediately took out the files, the proposed painting. He is up, anyone who have prestige car, such as ferrari, the police to restore it stolen, can't produce immediate ownership documents back it.
Tracking a piece of ownership documents "the origin of the validation a cake of, like in this way will have some sort of the key behind source," Molly said, often back to its creation time.
"It's not impossible, but it's unusual institution, or anyone, buy $250000 worth of no bonafides behind thing," he said.
In this late date confirmed, if Rembrandt didn't really have an people kneel before the judge little drawing can be difficult, but not impossible, said Florida art expert company's senior CPV's mark winter.
This requires a admit that Rembrandt in the same period of the drawings side comparison, as well as Rembrandt books and other documents, this may be scattered in all over the world search.
But, he said, every now and then someone confirmed the things as artists' works.
He pointed out that, DuoNian of Rembrandt's self-portraits, "the throat", hanging in nuremberg Germanic national museum, is considered to be one of the artist's work has a friend by copying. Then, in the 1990 s files, further research and painting revealed, this is real.




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