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The theft of ''The Weeping Woman'' from the National Gallery of Victoria was an art theft of one of a series of paintings by Pablo Picasso known as ''The Weeping Woman'' from the National Gallery of Victoria on 2 August 1986. The National Gallery of Victoria had purchased the work for in 1985, at the time the highest price paid by an Australian art gallery for an artwork. The theft was claimed to be made by a group calling itself "Australian Cultural Terrorists". A number of demands (and insults) by the group were made in letters to the then Victorian Minister for the Arts, Race Mathews. The demands included increases to funding for the arts; threats were made that the painting would be destroyed. After an anonymous tip-off to police, the painting was found undamaged in a locker at Spencer Street Station on 19 August 1986. The theft still remains unsolved. ==The painting== (詳細はGuernica'', Picasso created a series of works depicting one of the figures in the mural, a weeping woman. The model for these works was his mistress Dora Maar. The last and definitive work in the series is in the collection of the Tate Modern. One of the series was painted on 18 October 1937, and is oil on canvas, 55 centimetres by 46 centimetres. While the painting in the Tate is in bright reds, blues and yellows, the 18 October work is "an unsettling combination of acid greens and vibrant mauves exaggerated by thick black outlines". This painting was purchased by the National Gallery of Victoria in 1985 for . The previous highest price paid for a painting by a major gallery in Australia was Jackson Pollack's ''Blue Poles'', which was purchased by the National Gallery of Australia in 1973 for .〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jackson Pollock Before Blue Poles )〕 Commenting on the purchase of ''The Weeping Woman'', director of the National Gallery of Victoria Patrick McCaughey said its recent acquisition is "the most expensive purchase by any Australian gallery", and "This face is going to haunt Melbourne for the next 100 years." 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Theft of The Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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