University of Arizona's Stolen Painting, Now Restored, Makes Getty Museum Debut
June 09, 2022
June 09, 2022
TUCSON, Arizona, June 9 -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release:
It was an exhibit opening nearly 37 years in the making.
When Willem de Kooning's "Woman-Ochre" went on display at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles on Tuesday, it was the first time the famous painting had been publicly exhibited since it was brazenly cut from its frame at the University of Arizona Museum of Art by a pair of thieves more than three decades ago.< . . .
It was an exhibit opening nearly 37 years in the making.
When Willem de Kooning's "Woman-Ochre" went on display at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles on Tuesday, it was the first time the famous painting had been publicly exhibited since it was brazenly cut from its frame at the University of Arizona Museum of Art by a pair of thieves more than three decades ago.< . . .