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Today in the Art World: Heist in Zur...   Banksy in Chelsea?
Feb 11 2008 12:52PM EST

Déjà Vu

One of the paintings stolen from Zurich's Emile Bührle Foundation on Sunday afternoon was Cézanne's Boy in the Red Waistcoat, which depicts an apathetic-looking dark-haired youth (thought to be a model named Michelangelo di Rosa) in a bright vest. The New York Times tells us that the artist painted three other versions his subject, all in U.S. collections. But Figure Painting wondered where, exactly?

As it turns out:

One belongs to the Barnes Foundation, the eccentric institution located just outside of Philadelphia that intends to relocate to the city.

Another is a fractional gift to the Museum of Modern Art in New York made by David Rockefeller.

A third was given to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. by Paul Mellon, who bought it for $220,000 at Sotheby's London in 1958. (At the time, that was considered a great deal of money for a work of post-Impressionist art.)

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Paul Cézanne, Boy in a Red Waistcoat, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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