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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:31, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Woman-Ochre

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• ... that Willem de Kooning's Woman-Ochre was found in 2017 in Cliff, New Mexico, 32 years after it was stolen from the University of Arizona Museum of Art? Source: "Three years after de Kooning finished the painting, a benefactor of the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson bought it for the institution. And 27 years after that, in 1985, it was stolen — cut from its frame ... It was finally recovered last month", The New York Times, September 9, 2017
  • ALT1:... that Willem de Kooning's Woman-Ochre, stolen in 1985, was found 32 years later displayed in such a way that only the deceased former owners of the house it was in were likely to see it? Source: "He found “Woman-Ochre” hanging between a corner of the bedroom and the door, he said, situated so that it was completely obscured when the door was open, but visible from the bed when the door was closed."
  • ALT2:... that one of the people who may have stolen Willem de Kooning's Woman-Ochre in 1985 wrote a short story with details similar to the crime? "Jerry Alter's fictional tale ends with a description of the emerald sitting in an empty room. 'And two pairs of eyes, exclusively, are there to see!' it concludes.
    He could just as easily have been describing the de Kooning. But nobody thought of that until the painting was discovered in the Alters' bedroom, where it had been positioned in such a way that you couldn't see it unless you were inside with the door shut. The Washington Post, August 3, 2017
  • ALT3:... that the curator of the University of Arizona Museum of Art fell to her knees when she saw Willem de Kooning's recovered Woman-Ochre for the first time in person?"The homeowner, celebrating with a party for friends and visiting family, led curator Miller into his home office, where the painting was leaning against a wall.
    She knelt on the floor in front of it, and gasped.", Tucson Weekly; September 7, 2017.

• Reviewed: Harry Kupfer

5x expanded by Daniel Case (talk). Self-nominated at 18:38, 25 September 2018 (UTC).

• What a story! On good sources, well-told, fine expansion, no copyvio obvious. Thank you for the ALTs, but I like the first best, factual and still dramatic. ALT1 reads too complicated to me. ALT2 and ALT3 are possible. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:23, 29 September 2018 (UTC)