It’s not clear how they did it: was it a clandestine operation, carried out under the cloak of darkness? An elaborate ruse, designed to fool onlookers? Or something else?
“It was very premeditated,” said Bonnie Czegledi, an Ontario lawyer who specializes in international art and cultural heritage law. When Churchill made a wartime speech to Canada’s Parliament in 1941, Karsh was asked by then-prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King to take his portrait. Richard Langworth, a senior fellow at the Hillsdale College Churchill Project in New Hampshire, said he can’t understand what was “so singular” about this particular portrait.Several experts believe the thieves had a specific buyer in mind.Photos taken by guests have enabled hotel management to narrow down the timing of the theft to a 12-day period between Christmas Day and Jan. 6.
A disabled security system allowed them to open the skylight, drop a 15-metre-long rope inside and shimmy down the onto the second floor. Czegledi said that amounts to a poor understanding of both the scope of the problem and the intangible value of art.
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