‘Woman-Ochre’
The priceless painting ‘Woman-Ochre’ by renowned Dutch artist Willem De Kooning is missing, all that remains is a rectangular piece of canvas where the painting has been cut out of its frame with a blade. The police found no fingerprints, and the only clue was the guard’s description of the mysterious couple and their getaway car, but they had no license plate number.
Willem De Kooning
Willem De Kooning was a prominent painter of abstracts in the mid-century expressionist movement, and his paintings are exceptionally valuable. One painting has been sold for a staggering $137.5 million. The famous art heist of ‘Woman-Ochre’ had remained unsolved for three decades until an unassuming dealer realized just what it was that he had sitting in his Silver City antique store.