Two art pieces reported missing from BPL Central Library
Twenty five years after the Gardner heist, there’s more missing art in Boston.
Two works of art valued at more than $600,000 went missing last month from the Boston Public Library’s Copley Square branch, The Boston Globereported.
Police said they are investigating after they were alerted April 29. The library officials learned of the missing prints—a Rembrandt self-portrait worth between $20,000 and $30,000 and an Adam and Eve etching by Albrecht Dürer valued over $600,000—April 8.
When asked about the delay in alerting the police, a library spokeswoman, Melina Schuler, wrote to the Globe that staff “conducted an initial review and search of likely locations the prints might have been misfiled before turning the matter over to police.’’
Schuler added that there are more than 200,000 prints and drawings stored in secure areas of the Central Library at Copley Square and that the missing prints were not on display at the time.
Read the full Globe story here.
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