The Rescue Artist

Anti-abortion group, suspected involvement of, in theft of

The Scream, 21-24

Anxiety (Munch), 80

Arafat, Yasser, 119

Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (Rembrandt), 131

Arkan, Serbian gangster, 156

Art

determining authenticity of Munch’s, 87-88, 223-24

forgeries, 146-49, 171-73

high prices in, 129-32

insurance on, 27-29, 63

as investment, 129-30

stolen (see Art crime; Stolen art)

Art collectors

hidden identity of, 137-38

Japanese, 48, 129, 137

motivations of, 134-36

speculation about art thefts commissioned by, 72, 133-34, 138

thieves as, 144-45, 150-51

Art crime, 11-16. See also Art thieves and crooks; Stolen art

amateurs and bunglers

involved in, 139, 140-42

appeal of, to thieves, 16

gangsters involved in, 139, 152-56

high prices of art linked to, 131-32, 139-40

C. Hill on, as “farce,” 121

as “kudos” crime, 215

laws on, 25

as opportunism, 15-16

recovery rate in, 1, 13-14

simple techniques of, 14-15

speculation on art collectors willing to commission, 72, 133-34, 138, 143, 145-49, 189

statistics on extent of, 11-12

violence associated with, 57-58, 123, 124, 154, 155

Art Loss Register art recovery company, 237

Art market, 128-32

high prices in, 129-32

investment aspect of, 129-30

for stolen-and-recovered paintings, 130-31

unregulated nature of, 128-29

Art News (U.S. magazine), 149

Art Squad (Scotland Yard), 24

campaign by, for permission

to recover The Scream, 46-47

sting set up by, and recovery of Munch’s The Scream, 48-49, 78-88. See also The Scream (Munch), 1994 theft and recovery of

work of, and problems facing, 25-33

Art Theft and Forgery Investigations: The Complete Field Manual (Spiel), 149

Art thieves and crooks, 139, 140-42

amateurs and bunglers as, 139, 140-42

S. Breitwieser, 144-45

M. Cahill as, 56-60, 63-64, 67, 68, 70, 77, 122, 126, 127

categories of, 139

as collectors, 144-45, 150-51

A. Daisley as, 140-41

D. Duddin, 185-96

R. Dugdale as, 123-26

efficiency of, 14-15

P. Enger as, 160-62, 234-35

financial issues and, 131-32, 139-40

gangsters as, 139, 152-56

motives of, 29-32

as opportunists, 15

V. Perugia as, 146-49

P. Scott as, 215-16

A. Worth as, 150-51

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,

Great Britain, 13, 133

The Astronomer (Vermeer), 12n

Bailey, Anthony, 62

Ball at the Moulin de la Galette (Renoir), 48, 137

Bath, Marquess of, 236

Beit, Alfred, Sir, 59, 60, 63, 122, 125. See also Russborough House, Ireland, art thefts from

Beit, Clementine Freeman-Mitford, Lady, 59, 63, 122-23, 125

Belgium, recovery of Vermeer painting in, 69, 70-77 Bellotto, Bernardo, 126

View of Florence, 126-27

Berenson, Bernard, 134

Berg, Knut, director, Norway’s

National Gallery, 8-9, 18, 93, 233

Berman, Charley (C. Hill alias), 65, 68

Berntsen, Geir, 7

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, England, 140-41

Bishop, Tom (FBI pseudonym), 68

Bok, Sissela, 115-16

Bouquet of Peonies (Manet), 13

Boy with a Pipe (The Young Apprentice) (Picasso), 132, 137

Breitwieser, Stephane, art thefts perpetrated by, 144-45

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter, 104

theft of Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery by, 141-42, 181-84

Brueghel the Younger, Pieter, 104

Buccleuch, Duke of, 29

Bunton, Kempton, 188

Burge, Christopher, 131

Butler, John (head of Art Squad), 29, 32, 233

campaign by, for permission to recover The Scream,46-47

role in sting to recover The Scream, 51-53, 109, 114-15, 197, 198-99, 205-6

By the Deathbed (Munch), 80