Tara Pippins’s Reviews > The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession > Status Update

The three conjoined panels of the apothecary shop… begin to separate and warp. A skilled professional restorer can gradually untwist wood and reconnect the panels.
Breitwieser tried to fix it himself… a method one curator calls “brutal”, he forces the panels into approximate position and seals them with SUPER GLUE!

The work was displayed in the museum’s entry room, the most crowded spot”
Madeline was there; then she wasn’t
A work that had hung undisturbed in the museum for 138 years, since it had been given by a private donor so the painting could be seen by the public, had just vanished like a soap bubble into the air

27 - “coup de coeur” (a blow to the heart) for the art and Anne-Catherine

37 - fou de joie (crazy joy)

Breitwieser is an unemployed freeloader holed up in his mother’s house.
An “art liberator”

Quote “Aesthetics are higher than ethics.” - Oscar Wilde