Salvador Dali's painting "Don Juan Tenorio", painted in 1949 and estimated by experts at $ 150,000, was stolen from a Manhattan gallery in New York on June 19, 2012.
The known circumstances and the ending of this story make you look at it exclusively with humor. Surely the Spanish genius himself would have laughed at her, since there is more than enough surrealism in her.
Imagine a security guard, pissed off by the silence of an art gallery, who was asked by a visitor to photograph one of the paintings. The NY Daily News reporting the incident does not indicate why, but the security guard, allowing the photographs to be taken without a flash, retired and apparently abstracted himself from the outside world.
At this time, the attacker, who did not hide his face from numerous surveillance cameras, removed Dali's watercolor from the wall, put it in a large black bag, took the elevator down from the third floor and calmly went out into the street. Gallery owner Adam Lindemann just threw up his hands, unable to comment on the incident.
Police analyzed all footage of the streets in the Madisson Avenue area. Law enforcement officers tried to determine if the thief had visited the cultural institution in advance. As a result, it was not even possible to establish the identity of this person, whom the cameras captured in good quality, and the photos were then replicated by the press.
But the story continued unexpectedly. Museum staff suddenly received an e-mail, informing them that the robber or robbers were returning the painting. Further, the police, notified of the letter, accepted the parcel directly at Kennedy Airport - it was sent from Europe with a fictitious return address. The examination confirmed the authenticity of the painting, after which it took its original place. Most importantly, the masterpiece returned in the same condition in which it was stolen.
This ending is probably due to the fact that the kidnappers did not manage to sell the picture, and this is not so rare. The more famous the work and its author, the more difficult it is to find a person who dared to buy it. It's good that the thieves are now civilized.
