Showing posts with label art crimes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art crimes. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978) movie

The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting is a 1978 movie by director Paul Ruiz. According to the DVD package blurb, "A bumbling art collect attempts to reconstruct the content of a painting missing from a series of seven painted 100years earlier by an eccentric artist."

The movie is adapted from a novel of the same name by Pierre Klossowski.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

The Modigliani Scandal (1976, 1985) novel

Ken Follett originally published his novel The Modigliani Scandal in 1976 under the pseudonym of Zachary Stone, at least that's my assumption since it was copyrighted that year to that person. The novel was reissued under his own name in May 1985 as a paperback.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

The Rembrandt Affair (2010) novel

Daniel Silva's 2010 novel The Rembrandt Affair features once again his art restorer-sleuth Gabriel Allon, this time, as the time suggests, on the trail of a stolen, priceless and deadly Rembrandt painting.

In addition to scenes inside art galleries (public and private), there is also at least one depiction of an archivist, "a tall man in his early forties with reddish blond hair" who worked in the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam. The scene between Gabriel Allon and him is on p. 83-85 (hardcover). On p. 172 (hardcover) there is also a reference to the "archives of Argentina's Immigration Office."

Sunday, February 15, 2009

The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud

Original Novel Title: The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
Author: Julia Navarro; translated from the Spanish La Hermandad de la Sabana Santa by Andrew Hurley
Publisher: Barcelona: Random House Mondadori, 2004 (hardcover); New York: Doubleday, 2006 (hardcover)


Art history thriller involving the Holy Shroud at the Cathedral of Turin, Italy, and the Italian Art Crimes Department police force unit.