In San Francisco, a thief stole a picture of Salvador Dali in 32 seconds

In San Francisco, the painting “The Burning Giraffe” by the famous Spanish artist Salvador Dali was stolen. The thief managed to endure it in the middle of the day in just 32 seconds. Writes about it with the BBC.

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The color etching is valued at $20. The abduction was recorded by external surveillance cameras: on the afternoon of Sunday, October 13, an athletic-looking man in a blue T-shirt, shorts and a baseball cap (and even with a whistle on a lanyard) calmly enters the gallery. Thirty-two seconds later, he just as leisurely comes out of the door with a Dali engraving in his hands. The painting is rather large - 50 cm by 60 cm.

“This was the centerpiece of our special Salvador Dali exhibition,” said gallery director Angela Kellett. “The Burning Giraffe” (not the only work by Dali with this title) was displayed in the center of the hall on an easel.

According to assumptions, the thief had an accomplice.

“They kind of just popped into the gallery together, probably to distract the staff, and ran away too quickly before anyone noticed anything,” Kellett says.

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Mysterious abductions

The exhibit was supposed to be attached to the easel with a cable, but mysteriously there was no cable or carbine at the time of the abduction. The police find out if the cable was unfastened by the attackers in advance (perhaps they or accomplices had already entered the gallery before this) or the thief was able to cut the cable for those 32 seconds that he was in the room.

In 2012, Salvador Dali’s painting “Portrait of Don Juan Tenorio” was stolen from a gallery in New York, and a week later the gallery owners received it back by mail. The portrait, valuable and intact, was sent from a fictitious address in Europe.

One of the largest thefts of works by great artists of the 20th century remains simultaneous the abduction of five paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani and Leger from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.

Their total value can reach 100 million euros, and possibly more. The police found a thief: he claimed that in a panic he threw the stolen into a garbage container. Cloths are considered lost.

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