Art Masterpiece Thief Pleads Guilty To Theft Of Monet & Other Artworks From Monet, Sisley, Brueghel – US Attorney Report - The page reports that French national Bernard Jean Ternus pleaded guilty to conspiring to transport four stolen paintings and to visa fraud, related to a 2007 robbery in Nice that targeted works by Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, and Jan Brueghel the Elder.
The CultureGrrl page discusses the Museum of Arts and Design’s deaccessioned items being sold through Bonhams in New York, including a Wharton Esherick cherrywood table (est. $20/30,000), a Wendell Castle Plaintain coffee table (est. $8/12,000), wood vessels by Ed Moulthrop, Bob Stocksdale, Mark Lindquist, and Ron Kent, a Louise Bourgeois porcelain sculpture titled Fallen Women (produced by Sevres; could bring up to $5,000), and contemporary sculptures by Bretislav Novak, Rene Rubicek, Jaroslav Svoboda, and Dana Zamecnikova.