Forget anything today? An art dealer has what must be the record for the most expensive item lost this year. He was carrying a picture when he took a taxi in Paris on Thursday. He put the picture in the taxi’s trunk, got into the taxi, was distracted by a phone call, and forgot the painting when he got out. He didn’t miss it until the next morning. The dealer tried to find the taxi but was unable, so he went to the police on Saturday and filed a report for a stolen picture. The police reported that the taxi driver had found the painting and brought it back on Tuesday. We wonder if the taxi driver was very honest or didn’t realize the value of the picture, $1.6 million. The Italian artist, Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), founded an art movement called Spacialism that featured paintings pierced through the canvas to create light and dimension. Perhaps the cuts in the canvas made the picture look too damaged to be valuable.
Ok. So the dealer got out of the cab on the phone and the cab sped away before he got his picture out. I left an important piece of lugage in a cab one time in a similar way. Lesson: Always make note of the cab company when you get in the car. But he didn’t notice a missing 1.6 million dollar painting until the next morning??!! If I were wondering around Paris with a million dollar painting under my arm, it would absolutely be the ONLY thing on my mind!!!
So, the story is not clear. You state it was a “picture” twice which art dealer left in the trunk. Yet, you then say forgetting an oil painting, getting the painting back, but the value of the ‘picture’ was $1.6 mill. So, Are you talking about a “picture” of a painting? Or, an actual “painting”? It is very hard to figure out what is meant, when two items are talked about, yet the photo with the story looks like a framed shiny red piece of paper with a slit in it? Where is the photo of actual art?
From the looks of the piece and the method of process maybe he should have left it in the trunk of the cab…
That’s it? $1.6 million for a slashed monochrome canvas? Where did I go wrong?
Hmmm…I wonder what the market is for 9 randomly placed beer can openers glued to a piece of pegboard…retirement, here I come!
The dealer should have been grateful enough to reward the honest taxi driver.
Give the guy some credit. He was an honest hard working taxi driver. Not everyone out there is motivated by greed.
So, how about showing us a photo of the actual painting? Or is the owner supposed to look thru the slit in the red covering to personally view the $1.6 Million art work?
Such an honest taxi driver. I bet the art dealer will never make that mistake again.