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Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece | Edward Dolnick
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In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream. It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police turned to the one man they believed could help: a half English, half American undercover cop named Charley Hill, the world's greatest art detective.The Rescue Artist is a rollicking narrative that carries readers deep inside the art underworld -- and introduces them to a large and colorful cast of titled aristocrats, intrepid investigators, and thick-necked thugs. But most compelling of all is Charley Hill himself, a complicated mix of brilliance, foolhardiness, and charm whose hunt for a purloined treasure would either cap an illustrious career or be the fiasco that would haunt him forever.
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Vivlio_Gnosi
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A really fun book! Charles Hill is the perfect character to anchor this #Nonfiction account of how one man led the charge to recover The Scream. It reads like a sophisticated art heist movie script! #action #adventure #art
The author also points out the ineptitude of the people responsible for The Scream. They will frustrate you more than anyone else in this book.
Highly Recommend!
#audiobook

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Vivlio_Gnosi
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Started listening to this #Nonfiction #audiobook about masterpiece art, theft, and #Mystery

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SkeletonKey
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Started listening to this while driving in PA today. Part art crime, part art history, ALL INTERESTING. This book specifically revolves around the theft of Edvard Munch‘s “The Scream.”

I can‘t believe how many classic paintings are missing in action, this is fascinating.

#crime #nonviolentcrime #art #arthistory

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Flyaway504
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Shakespeare's penmanship is irrelevant to his art; Rembrandt's way with a brush IS his art.

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, 1633. The painting is still missing from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston) after a theft in 1990.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn.

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Blueberry
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ValerieAndBooks
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I think hubby and I had a good kid-free "mini-staycation" weekend ?. Checked out three new-to-us brewpubs, saw a movie (Dunkirk ?), got to visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art (for free!), and I got tempted by all these art crime books --took pics for TBR reference but didn't buy any.

ValerieAndBooks I've read The Art Forger by Shapiro; have The Monuments Men (saw the movie) and Goldfinch in my TBR. 7y
Melissa_J Is Dunkirk really sad? I really want to see it, but I get emotional when it comes to war movies really easily and I have a feeling it might be better for me to wait till it's released on demand. 7y
ValerieAndBooks @Melissa_J I really liked Dunkirk -- however it did bring tears to my eyes a couple times and I don't cry easily at movies! So, maybe you'll want to wait? It didn't follow the usual formula of war movies, which I also liked. 7y
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Rachbb3 Sounds like a wonderful weekend! 7y
Leftcoastzen Great weekend!Brews , movies , books and a museum! Sounds heavenly! 7y
vivastory I enjoyed Dunkirk too 7y
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