The Rescue Artist

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria, 12

Lacemaker (Vermeer), 62

Lady Playing a Guitar (Vermeer), 60

Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid (Vermeer), 12, 126, 246n

theft and recovery of, 59-60, 63-77, 122

Larsen, Tulla, 82

Lefevre Gallery, London, 31

Leonardo da Vinci, 136n

Madonna of the Rocks, 78

Madonna of the Yamwinder, 12, 13, 29, 239

Lier, Leif, 23, 94, 162, 210, 231, 235, 243

Light and Colour (Turner), 155

Lives of the Artists (Vasari), 168

The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World’s Greatest Works of Art (Feliciano), 152n

Louvre, Paris, France, 16

Lying, C. Hill’s approach to undercover work and, 115-16

Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life (Bok), 115-16

McGarrick, Gerry, 68, 69

Macintyre, Ben, 137, 150

Madam Baccelli: Dancer (Gainsborough), 69, 122, 126

Madonna (Munch), 242, 244

Madonna of the Pinks (Raphael), 135

Madonna of the Rocks (Leonardo da Vinci), 78

Madonna of the Yamwinder (Leonardo da Vinci), 12, 13, 29, 239

Mafia, possible involvement in art crimes, 153, 154

Manet, Edouard, 14, 240

Bouquet of Peonies, 13

Chez Tortoni, 14, 240

Mannoia, Francesco Marino, 153-54

Man Writing a Letter (Metsu), 77

Massacre of the Innocents (Rubens), 129-30, 137

Mellon, Andrew, 135

Messina, Antonello da, 154

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 131, 143

Metsu, Gabriel, 69, 77, 244

Man Writing a Letter, 77

Woman Reading a Letter (Metsu), 69, 244

Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci), forgeries and claimed theft of, 146-49

Moore, Henry, King and Queen (Moore), 103

Morgan, J. E, 134, 135, 136, 150

Morgan, Junius Spencer, 150

Mulvihill, Niall, 72-77

Munch, Edvard, 1, 6

Anxiety by, 80

By the Deathbed by, 80

Death Struggle by, 80

Despair by, 80, 86

Frieze of Life by, 86

Hatred by, 82

C. Hill’s study of, 78-79, 82, 87-88

life and work of, 79-82, 83-87

Madonna by, 242, 244

Portrait of the Painter Jensen-Hjell by, 83

The Scream (see The Scream, Munch, theft of)

The Sick Child by, 80, 83

Study for a Portrait (Munch), 19

The Vampire by, 18-19, 160-61, 234

Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway, art thefts from, 18-19, 160, 241-43

Museum for Contemporary Art, Norway, 243

Museum of the Missing (missing artwork), 13

Napoleon of Crime (Macintyre), 150

National Fine Arts Museum, Paraguay, 13

National Gallery, Great Britain, 15, 27, 135n

National Gallery, Oslo, Norway, 243

art thefts from, 18, 19

press conference announcing return of The Scream, 233

security mistakes of, 9, 11

theft of The Scream from. See The Scream (Munch), 1994 theft of

National Gallery of Ireland, 60

National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, Italy, 13

Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence (Caravaggio), 153

Nazis, art thefts perpetrated by, 12n, 152n

Nessa, Ludvig, 22-23

New Yorker (U.S. magazine), 149

New York Times (U.S. newspaper), 131, 149

Nicholas, Lynn, 152n

Norway, criminal gangs in, 160-62

Norwegian police investigation of The Scream theft, 19-20, 32, 94, 159-62, 198-99, 203-4, 210, 229-31

presence of, at Plaza Hotel where C. Hill and thieves met, 113-15, 118-20, 164-65

E. Ulving stopped by traffic police, 197-98

Olson, Don, 85n

Olson, Marilyn, 85n

Olympic Winter Games (1994), Norway, 7-8, 18, 159

Organized crime involved in art thefts, 152-56

Oslo Accords, 119

Oudry, Jean-Baptiste, 239

White Duck, 239

Parmigianino, C. Hill’s investigation of thefts of works by, 167-73

Paradise Lost (John Milton), 134

Pembroke, Earl of, 192, 193

Perugia, Vincenzo, art theft