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Stealing Woman Ochre

The story of the theft of an abstract painting of a woman by Willem de Kooning.
by Mitchell Riley

On the morning of Nov. 29th, 1985, the day after Thanksgiving, a couple entered the University of Arizona Museum of Art. What happened next rocked the art community and lead to a decades long mystery that has yet to be solved. The story of the theft of an abstract painting of a woman by Willem de Kooning.

Producer/Editor: Mitchell Riley
Photographer: Omar Lopez

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