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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 20:27, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

View of Auvers-sur-Oise

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View of Auvers-sur-Oise

• ... that the theft of Paul Cézanne's View of Auvers-sur-Oise (pictured) from the Ashmolean Museum 20 years ago today used the millennium celebrations as cover? Source: "With the noise of his break-in masked by celebratory fireworks, the burglar cut a hole in the roof of the Ashmolean museum and descended to its art gallery by rope ladder." The Guardian, January 2, 2000
  • ALT1:... that novelist Iain Pears called the theft of Paul Cézanne's View of Auvers-sur-Oise (pictured) from the Ashmolean Museum near his house 20 years ago today "jolly brilliant"? Source: "Mr. Pears, a specialist in ancient crime whose latest book, An Instance of the Fingerpost, is a whodunit set in a conspiracy-laden England after the death of Oliver Cromwell, had a theory about the smoke canister -- that it was timed to set the alarm off at midnight so that guards would assume a Y2K computer glitch was to blame. 'Jolly brilliant,' he judged." The New York Times; February 3, 2000
  • ALT2:... that the theft of Paul Cézanne's View of Auvers-sur-Oise (pictured) from the Ashmolean Museum 20 years ago today was seen as similar to a scene in the movie Entrapment? "'My personal theory is that they're very media-alert,' Ms. Burrows said, noting that people had pointed out the similarities between the Ashmolean theft and the movie Entrapment, in which Sean Connery pulls off a stunning art theft.", New York Times, cited above.
  • ALT3:... that Paul Cézanne's View of Auvers-sur-Oise (pictured), stolen 20 years ago today from the Ashmolean, was given to the museum to settle a tax debt? "Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax from the estate of Dr Richard and Mrs Walzer, 1980

• Reviewed: Paramilitary punishment attacks in Northern Ireland
• Comment: I would like this to run on January 1, the 20th anniversary of the crime.

Created by Daniel Case (talk). Self-nominated at 23:31, 21 December 2019 (UTC).

• A very well-written article, refs and image used check out ok and is DYK-eligible based on newness and length. QPQ is met. I found Alt2 hook to be particularly intriguing, but the original hook is good, too. This DYK should run on January 1.  JGHowes  ^talk 14:32, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

• @Daniel Case: did you transclude this? It's not at WP:DYKN or WP:DYKNA. Yoninah (talk) 18:27, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

• Never mind, it's in the January 1 holding area. Yoninah (talk) 18:30, 24 December 2019 (UTC)