Are works of art really stolen to order?

[Boyo_Jim]

@md2000

There was the case in New York a year or two ago, where some guy found a painting in the trash at the curb. He pulled it out, took it home… while trying to trace the artist by the signature, he found it was stolen over a decade before that. Not a household name artist, but apparently well known in modern art circles… Seems whoever stole/had it left it in the apartment when they moved, and the new owner did not like it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/arts/design/23pain.html?pagewanted=all

(EDIT) Oops.Nobody knows who tossed it out.

Wow, that is a great story!