Review
If you thought the world of classical art was full of boring people discussing paintings in hushed pseudo-intellectual voices, then it's about time you took
some time out to meet Charley Hill, a
former Scotland Yard undercover officer and
Fulbright scholar, now a freelance detective
who has made recovering stolen art treasures
his life's work. Now almost 60
years old, he has a convivial face framed by
spectacles and curly brown hair and is able
to talk with art world academics and the
criminal fraternity on equal terms.
Before serving in the Metropolitan Police
for 20 years he was a paratrooper in Vietnam
(his father was a US Air Force officer, his
mother English); at university he studied
history and theology and...
Beyond the Book
Edvard Munch,
Norway's most popular artist,
died in 1944, aged 81. He was a
painter, lithographer, etcher
and wood engraver, most famous
for his paintings of
The
Scream. . He created five different variations of
The Scream (4 paintings and
one lithograph) which is
fortunate as the Norwegians do
seem to have a habit of losing
them. In 1994 one was stolen
from Oslo's National Gallery,
and then in 2004 another
version was stolen from the
Munch Museum (a tempura
on cardboard version) along with
Munch's
Madonna.
Three men...
