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Apr082013

The $500 Million Gardner Museum Heist: Have You Seen These Paintings?

DateMonday, April 8, 2013 at 11:07AM

Édouard Manet - "Chez Tortoni" - Oil on canvas, 26 x 34 cm (click photo for larger image)

“The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced today that it knows the identity of the thieves who stole 13 works of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston more than two decades ago, in what’s widely viewed as the biggest art heist in U.S. history.”

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"Chez Tortoni" (above) by Édouard Manet (1832-1883) is one of the paintings being sought. Manet was one of the great forerunners of Impressionism. By defying the standards and techniques of Academic Classicism--and choosing subjects relevant to his own time (rather than the past) Manet became an innovator.

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