The Painting Was On Private Display
“My personal thought, and it may be totally wrong, but when I first saw where the painting was hanging in the house, it was for their private display,” said Buck Burns. He is the co-owner of an antique store. He went on, “Not for anybody else. It was hung behind that door and when that door was open nobody could see it.” If you ask us, the most unbelievable thing is that it was hiding in plain sight in a way.
The Painting Was On Private Display
Right Under Their Noses
In 2011, Jerome “Jerry” Alter wrote a collection of short stories. He gave the book the title “The Cup and the Lip.” There is a short story about a mom and her daughter stealing a 120-carat jewel. They pulled it off by distracting the security guard at the museum and then riding away in a getaway car. Once they got home, they placed it in a secret panel so that they could get to look at it for their own pleasure. That sounds uncannily similar to what must have happened with the De Kooning painting!
Right Under Their Noses