Whipped Cream Difficulties

…that I find simply irresistible. Call it the hopeless romantic in me. Or perhaps it is the youthful memories of all those movies and TV shows where the “bad” guys engaged in incredibly complicated high-tech schemes to steal diamonds or art or priceless artifacts from heavily guarded museums. (Of course, these days, art thefts involve less high-tech electronics and rappelling from the ceiling, and more  brute force and ignorance. But that’s another rant.)

I’ve been tempted from time to time to purchase a bunch of prints of stolen artworks, put them in frames, and decorate my home with them.

Anyway:

A thief stole five paintings possibly worth hundreds of millions of euros, including major works by Picasso and Matisse, in a brazen overnight heist at a Paris modern art museum, police and prosecutors said Thursday.

In the interest of being a good citizen (think of this as sort of a “Crimewatch” thing), here’s links to images of the stolen works. Links open in a new window.

“Le pigeon aux petits-pois”, by Pablo Picasso.

“La Pastorale”, Henri Matisse.

”L’olivier pres de l’Estaque”, by Georges Braque.

“La femme a l’eventail”, by Amedeo Modigliani.

I believe this is “Nature-mort aux chandeliers”, by Fernand Leger. But I’m not 100% sure; the articles I’ve seen refer to the painting as “Still Life with Chandeliers” (plural), while this is “Still Life with a Chandelier.”

While I was working on this post, I see that the LAT put up a similar slide show; the Leger is missing from theirs.

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