This is MY MOTHER‘S STORY from 1991 to EARLY 1992!
Imagine researching a crazy artwork story that your mother was part of and one day you find yourself connecting to these statements…
5 Pen & Pencil Drawings
A Manet Painting
A Man in a Hat
A Bird Finial
& MORE!
Imagine researching a crazy artwork story that your mother was part of and one day you find yourself connecting to these statements…
5 Pen & Pencil Drawings
A Manet Painting
A Man in a Hat
A Bird Finial
& MORE!
What if that connection was to the Largest Art Heist in History.
No way… RIGHT?
3/18/1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Art Heist
Stolen:
- 5 Pen & Pencils by Edgar Degas
- Manet painting of a man in a hat
- 3 Rembrandts
- Govaert Flinck painting
- Vermeer painting
- Bird Finial
- Chinese Beaker
Below represents how I believe my mother's artwork connects to the stolen items and are in the order of how I connected to them.
5 Pen & Pencil drawings by Edgar Degas
- 5 Pen & Pencil drawings by Alexander Calder
Manet painting of a man in a hat
- Manet painting of a beach/ocean scene
- A man in a hat – van Gogh is a man in a hat
Bird Finial (low value)
- 3 Bird (Jane Peterson) paintings (lower value pieces)
Vermeer painting
- Jim Cassel print (need to read why)
- Dutch Room – van Gogh is also a Dutch artist
3 Rembrandts
- 4 Picassos could equal 3 Rembrandts
Govaert Flinck painting
&
Chinese Beaker
- no obvious connection
No way a crazy art story could collide with not ONE but TWO art crimes ALL occurring in less than 24 months of each other... RIGHT?!
I hope you are asking ‘What fire?” read about it here.
Trying to prove a connection with the following events:
- March 18, 1990 – Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum.
- Trying to prove – Heist done by Frederick R. Koch and John Olsen.
- December 21, 1990 – Mary Robinson Koch passes away.
- She is the mother of Frederick R. Koch. My mother’s name is also Mary.
- September 21, 1991 – Robert Donati is murdered by the mafia, because of art heist.
- October 7, 1991 – James Bourlet & Sons London warehouse art storage fire.
- Trying to prove Fire done by Frederick R. Koch and/or John Olsen.
- November 1991 – Stranger arrives in my mother’s life and begins to sell her artwork. We still have some of the artwork and hand written notes between them.
- Trying to prove – this was Frederick R. Koch.
- February 1992 – My mother visits Sotheby’s they authenticate the Snowy Egret, Jane Peterson painting.
- March 1992 – Stranger departs in hospital scene with a newspaper obituary, but turns out he is alive.
- April 1992 – Sotheby’s signs contract with my mother on the Jane Peterson painting.
- 1994 Someone writes a letter to the museum trying to return the stolen artwork and claiming they have knowledge of international art transactions. My Miami research connects to a company called International Art Trading. They request to communicate through the newspaper.
- Trying to prove – Frederick R. Koch wrote this letter.
Below is my mother's artwork that I was able to photograph.
