The Picasso Ransom: and other stories about art and crime in Australia by Mark S. Holsworth
English | March 1st, 2023 | ISBN: 0646873075 | 314 pages | True EPUB | 2.74 MB
A collection of forty-five true-crime stories about the visual arts in Australia: art theft, art forgery, art censorship, art vandalism, and protest art. The title comes from the famous artnapping of Picasso's Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria. One of the artnapper's demands was an art prize called 'The Picasso Ransom'.