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View of Auvers-sur-Oise
- ... that the theft of Paul Cézanne's View of Auvers-sur-Oise (pictured) from the Ashmolean Museum 20 years ago today used the millennium celebrations as cover? Source: "With the noise of his break-in masked by celebratory fireworks, the burglar cut a hole in the roof of the Ashmolean museum and descended to its art gallery by rope ladder." The Guardian, January 2, 2000
- ALT1:... that novelist Iain Pears called the theft of Paul Cézanne's View of Auvers-sur-Oise (pictured) from the Ashmolean Museum near his house 20 years ago today "jolly brilliant"? Source: "Mr. Pears, a specialist in ancient crime whose latest book, An Instance of the Fingerpost, is a whodunit set in a conspiracy-laden England after the death of Oliver Cromwell, had a theory about the smoke canister -- that it was timed to set the alarm off at midnight so that guards would assume a Y2K computer glitch was to blame. 'Jolly brilliant,' he judged." The New York Times; February 3, 2000
- ALT2:... that the theft of Paul Cézanne's View of Auvers-sur-Oise (pictured) from the Ashmolean Museum 20 years ago today was seen as similar to a scene in the movie Entrapment? "'My personal theory is that they're very media-alert,' Ms. Burrows said, noting that people had pointed out the similarities between the Ashmolean theft and the movie Entrapment, in which Sean Connery pulls off a stunning art theft.", New York Times, cited above.
- ALT3:... that Paul Cézanne's View of Auvers-sur-Oise (pictured), stolen 20 years ago today from the Ashmolean, was given to the museum to settle a tax debt? "Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax from the estate of Dr Richard and Mrs Walzer, 1980
- Reviewed: Paramilitary punishment attacks in Northern Ireland
- Comment: I would like this to run on January 1, the 20th anniversary of the crime.
Created by Daniel Case (talk). Self-nominated at 23:31, 21 December 2019 (UTC).