Thief steals Playboy nude painting
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)
- A thief, apparently enamoured with a saucy Vargas pin-up of a female nude that appeared in Playboy Magazine, stole the painting in broad daylight, officials say.
The thief walked into a gallery in the town of Larkspur, north of San Francisco, on Sunday afternoon and set his eyes on a January 1960 painting by pin-up artist Alberto Vargas. He grabbed the watercolour from an easel and then escaped even though the gallery owner chased him down the street.
Larkspur police said the painting had a value of $125,000 but was selling for $75,000 because of depressed prices in the art market.
My Sardonic Thoughts
If I put a house on the market for $125,000, and it only sells for $75,000, then it's value was only $75,000.
- Why is it that this painting is worth $50,000 more than anyone would pay for it?
