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THREE HOURS AWAY, 30 YEARS GONE:
STOLEN DE KOONING
RETURNS
by Ford Burkhart Chris Richards photo
Staff at the University of Arizona
Museum of Art examine the recently
returned Willem de Kooning painting
“Woman-Ochre.” The frame from
which it was cut stands on the right.
t was the UA’s version of “The Thomas Crown Affair.” Instead of a
stolen Monet, this plot centered on a looted de Kooning. But the
Iending was just as stunning.
As the final page in a purloined-painting mystery stretching over
30 years, a work by Willem de Kooning was spotted at a late
schoolteacher’s New Mexico home and returned in August by an
antiques shop to a grateful University of Arizona Museum of Art.
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