Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...caper in Palermo. In Italy alone, 44,000 works of art disappear each year. Indeed, during Watson's dogged investigation, enough masterpieces were purloined from churches, galleries and private homes to furnish a museum. The odds on retrieving the Caravaggio were minuscule. In Italy, only 10% of recorded stolen art is ever recovered; in the U.S. the rate...
...decided to pose as Art Dealer "John Blake," with an interest in 17th century Italian painting, pretending to have many rich clients and no moral scruples. Once word of his corruptibility got around the art world, Watson reckoned, he would be offered stolen pictures, including, some day, the Caravaggio...
...undercover man was advised on how to establish his credentials as a crooked art dealer by two former members of Scotland Yard's art squad. The names of some suspected thieves were supplied by the late Rodolfo Siviero, who directed Italy's attempts to recover its stolen art. Also secretly cooperating with Watson were five major U.S. and British art dealers...
...underworld rose to the bait. First shady dealers, then smugglers and fences and, finally, the thieves themselves came forward to offer him hot merchandise, including pictures purportedly by Tintoretto, Renoir, Van Gogh and Modigliani. Watson had difficulty in authenticating these works as stolen art, with good reason. Most were forgeries...
CHARGED. Maury Wills, 51, former base-stealing (104 in 1962) shortstop of the Los Angeles Dodgers and manager of the Seattle Mariners (1980-81); with felony possession of cocaine after police spotted him driving an Audi 4000 that had been reported stolen; in Los Angeles. Though the car turned out to have been borrowed from a friend, officers found a vial containing a small amount of cocaine...