{"id":26936,"date":"2017-07-07T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/blog\/?p=26936"},"modified":"2019-02-28T21:53:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T02:53:01","slug":"art-theft-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2017\/07\/art-theft-down-under\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Theft &#8211; Down Under"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26938\" style=\"width: 129px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/689.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26938\" class=\"wp-image-26938 \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/689-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"689\" width=\"119\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/689-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/689.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 119px) 100vw, 119px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colin John McCahon&#8217;s &#8220;Comet (F13)&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to New Zealand police, Colin John McCahon&#8217;s &#8220;Comet (F13)&#8221; was stolen from its owner&#8217;s home while they were\u00a0in the process of moving.\u00a0 Sure, moving wasn&#8217;t stressful enough! <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colin_McCahon\" target=\"_blank\">Colin John McCahon<\/a> (1919-1987) is considered one of the country&#8217;s most influential Modernist artists and his works have reached the $1M mark. \u00a0I wonder what sort of &#8216;black market&#8217; there is for a stolen New Zealand Modernist work of art?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2017\/jul\/07\/painting-worth-200000-stolen-from-sydney-house-while-owner-was-moving\" target=\"_blank\">Painting worth $200,000 stolen from Sydney house while owner was moving | Australia news | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; According to New Zealand police, Colin John McCahon&#8217;s &#8220;Comet (F13)&#8221; was stolen from its owner&#8217;s home while they were\u00a0in the process of moving.\u00a0 Sure, moving wasn&#8217;t stressful enough! Colin John McCahon (1919-1987) is considered one of the country&#8217;s most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2017\/07\/art-theft-down-under\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":26938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[11,9,32],"class_list":["post-26936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-rehs-contemporary-news","tag-rehs-galleries-news","tag-the-dark-side"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Art Theft - Down Under - Rehs Galleries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2017\/07\/art-theft-down-under\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Art Theft - Down Under\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; According to New Zealand police, Colin John McCahon&#8217;s &#8220;Comet (F13)&#8221; was stolen from its owner&#8217;s home while they were\u00a0in the process of moving.\u00a0 Sure, moving wasn&#8217;t stressful enough! 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