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🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:00.0 | Blaze Radio Network |
0:02.1 | And now, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. |
0:06.1 | Be on the lookout in the southern Netherlands, or really around the world, because of the Internet, two portraits. |
0:13.7 | Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Marguerite, the second of Denmark. |
0:18.1 | They were Andy Warhol prince, and they were stolen from a art |
0:24.8 | gallery in southern Netherlands. Now, the thieves were a botched dummy thieves. I guess apparently |
0:31.1 | they did too many drugs. Sometimes you have great thieves. Other times, not so much. So these thieves |
0:37.4 | attempted to steal all four works |
0:39.1 | from a 1985 Warhol series called Raining Queens, which features portraits of the then |
0:45.3 | queens of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Swaziland. It's not Swaziland anymore. |
0:51.8 | In a telephone interview, the head of the museum said in the town of Oistewick, it was all captured on security cameras. |
1:03.0 | So they used a bomb to get into the building, which was much bigger than needed. |
1:10.1 | And it destroyed the building and destroyed |
1:12.7 | nearby stores as well, or damaged them severely. So they actually, they did that job too well. Then they |
1:20.6 | ran to the car with the artworks, and the artworks won't fit of the car. So then they ripped the frames off of the artwork, which means they damaged the artwork. |
1:31.4 | It was impossible to get them out on damage. |
1:34.7 | The two of the pieces of art they left on the streets. |
1:39.2 | So they ended up with the first two that I mentioned, Elizabeth two of the United Kingdom |
1:43.9 | and Marguerite, two of the United Kingdom and |
1:44.3 | Marguerite, two of Denmark. So if you see those online or on the black market in the |
1:48.8 | southern Netherlands for sale, I'm sure they're damaged now. Good luck. I don't know what kind of |
1:53.8 | price they're going to be worth now. The other two are just damaged and they were found laying |
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