Would you buy and hang stolen artwork in your home?

[fuji]

There is a market for stolen art, obviously, but since a stolen Picasso is pretty fucking famous, you're going to have to hang it up secretly and keep it hush hush. Let only trusted people see it. Not exactly something you could hang in your living room for every guest to admire.

That makes me wonder where this stuff goes, it must be worth a LOT less on the stolen market.

If you had a few extra (million) lying around and you were thinking about buying some artwork, and had a hook up to some quality stolen Picasso or Matisse or whatever float's your boat, would you buy it and hang it in your home?

Or would you figure it's theft/immoral and not touch it?

Anonymous poll.

 

[EntertainmentMan2000]

would you?

 

[Aardvark154]

There is a market for stolen art, obviously, but since a stolen Picasso is pretty fucking famous, you're going to have to hang it up secretly and keep it hush hush. Let only trusted people see it. Not exactly something you could hang in your living room for every guest to admire.

That makes me wonder where this stuff goes, it must be worth a LOT less on the stolen market.

Some of it is stolen for ransom. Some of it is stolen on commission for someone with lots of money and zero morality to hang on the wall in their secret gallery, and some of it is stolen by art thieves with more gall than brains.

 

[SillyGirl]

No, I wouldn't.

 

[Don]

I say No because I don't appreciate art enough so that it is worth it.

For many people, having such expensive art is for show. If it is stolen, I'd image you have to keep it on the down low. Only the people who really appreciate art and get it for just themselves, is it worth it.

 

[Brill]

If it was beautiful, the one painting that made me gasp and I was loaded with money, then yes. The secrecy would add to the pleasure for me.

 

[biogenicx]

If anyone here has a few million lying around I'll paint them a biogenicx one of a kind original finger painting for 3 mill lol.

In all seriousness though I doubt I'd pay a few million for art stolen or unstolen art if I had that kind of money just laying around to begin with...

 

[The Oracle]

Like I would risk going to jail for a piece of art.

Never

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Why do you ask? What have you heard?

 

[Keebler Elf]

Don't underestimate the extent of a person's ego. There are plenty of wealthy folks who would be willing to keep stolen art in a private gallery just to know that they have something that the rest of the world doesn't.

The current comments from the art gallery are a bluff to (hopefully) get the thieves to turn it in. But chances are the artwork was stolen by a commissioned thief who already had a buyer lined up.

Just look at the gates to Auschwitz. You'd think no one on the planet would pay to own those but sure enough some Swedish millionaire paid to have them stolen. And you can be damn sure he wasn't going to be displaying them for public viewing!

 

[Cassini]

Steal the original, then sell copies. As know one can show the original in public, the buyers of the copies won't know they have been duped.

If you do it right, you can keep the original, and the money. Just be prepared to stay in some country with no extradition treaties, and a small army for security.

 

[red]

yes because its very classy

 

[Bif_Butkiss]

I agree with Aardvark..... The paintings were probably "stolen to order". Somone who's obviously brazen enough and art savy enough to go after these particular paintings probably had customers lined up way before he stole them. AND not to mention that he stole them at a time when the gallery's alarm system was not "functioning properly". I saw a couple of news stories on this and by the sounds of things it looks more like a "group effort" rather than a single individual commiting this theft.

As far as if you would hang stolen art in you home..... it's obvious some people have more money than brains.

 

[eurotrash1970]

I agree with the Elf. They do it because it's exclusive. They know and that's all that counts. they might also display it to certain people in their inner circle. But it's not to show. It's to own. I would buy it and give it back if I had that kind of bank floating around.

 

[rama putri]

LOL people like to think they're above board, yet they wouldn't think twice to buy a fake - nearly the same thing as stolen.

 

[big apple]

i dont think i could do it, may for something really extraordinary