Word: dulwich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gang members were vocationally talented; they drilled 48 holes to remove a panel in a stout oak door of the Dulwich College museum without tripping an alarm attached to the frame. Their taste in art was impeccable; they snatched eight old masters worth some $7,000,000, including three Rembrandts (among them the widely admired A Girl at a Window). What they had not figured out was who would pay them for their night's work. The college was heavily in debt, and in no position to afford a ransom. None of the works were insured, a fact that...
Georges Did It. Like St. Peter, which hung for years in Britain's Dulwich College and was considered of such small importance that the college did not even bother to catalogue it, The Fortune Teller belonged to a noble family of Lorraine that did not suspect the value of its treasure. Fourteen years ago a learned Benedictine monk "discovered'' the painting, noticed that it bore in the upper right-hand corner the bold and flourishing signature: "G. de La Tour Fecit Luneuilla Lother" (Luneville, Lorraine). The monk sent word to Paris, and the Louvre quickly offered...