In 1969, during a Boston snowstorm, a crate containing Pablo Picasso's Portrait of a Woman and a Musketeer vanished from Logan Airport. It should have gone to a Milwaukee gallery-but instead ended up in the closet of Bill Rummel, a young forklift operator.
What followed was a stranger-than-fiction chain of events: FBI agents on the hunt, whispers of Whitey Bulger's mob, and a daring "reverse heist" devised by Bill's father to secretly return the painting.
But the mystery didn't end there. After its return, the Picasso disappeared again-vanishing into private hands, unseen by the public for more than fifty years.
Part true crime, part memoir, The Accidental Picasso Thief uncovers the Rummel family's incredible brush with art history, crime, and secrecy-and one man's decades-long search for a lost masterpiece.
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The Accidental Picasso Thief
The True Story of a Reverse Heist, Outrunning the FBI, and Fleeing the Boston Mob
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The True Story of a Reverse Heist, Outrunning the FBI, and Fleeing the Boston Mob
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Topic
ArtSubtopic
European ArtTable of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: The Setup
- Chapter 1: Boston: April 1, 1969
- Chapter 2: Waterville, Maine
- Chapter 3: Waterville, Maine
- Chapter 4: Waterville, Maine
- Chapter 5: Europe, 1966
- Chapter 6: Boston: February 1969
- Part II: The Heist
- Chapter 7: Logan Airport, Boston: February 1969
- Chapter 8: New Orleans: February 23, 1969
- Chapter 9: Boston: February 1969
- Chapter 10: Boston: March 1969
- Chapter 11: New Orleans: March 1969
- Chapter 12: Boston: March 1969
- Chapter 13: Boston: April 1969
- Part III: The Mystery
- Chapter 14: Boston: Spring 1969
- Chapter 15: 1971–1988
- Chapter 16: Waterville, Maine: 1994
- Chapter 17: Paris, France: January 1969
- Chapter 18: 2007–2009
- Chapter 19: 2019
- Notes
- Bibliography and Further Reading
- Index
- About the Authors
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