A 1972 Andy Warhol “Mao” screen print, which resembles the artwork second from left on the upper row in this 2017 Orange County Museum of Art exhibit, was stolen from a vault in the Frank M. Doyle Art Pavilion on the campus of Orange Coast College. Officials first noticed the screen print, valued at about $50,000 in September 2020, missing on March 13.
To access the vault takes a key card and punching a code into a keypad, Bennett said, adding that it appeared no damage had been done to the vault. “We’re just hoping that we can find it,” Bennett said, “that perhaps there’s a misunderstanding or someone took it to hang in their office or something like that.”Crime and Public Safety |“Mao” was inspired by a 1972 visit by then-U.S. President Richard Nixon to China to meet the Communist chairman, “ending years of diplomatic isolation between the two nations,” according to the