Shoe Leather
Shoe Leather
Columbia Journalism School
A Renaissance of Mysterious Circumstances
26 minutes Posted May 7, 2020 at 10:46 pm.
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“I start with a blank and there’s nothing more horrifying than a blank canvas” — artist Lee Krasner.
New York City, December 1990: thieves stole four paintings in a span of five days. Nearly thirty years later, one of the recovered paintings made history at a Sotheby’s auction. This is the story of those thefts—and one artist’s revival.