Subhechcha Ganguly 
The officials of an Arizona museum held onto the hope that a Willem de Kooning painting that was brazenly stolen in 1985 and was worth millions would eventually be found. However, no one could have foreseen that Woman-Ochre would return thanks to the generosity of strangers in a nearby state.
Olivia Miller, interim director and exhibitions curator of the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson, stated, “I would kind of picture what would that look like.” Would it simply appear as a puzzling package in the mail or something similar? … I definitely didn’t anticipate making friends through it.
The Dutch-American abstract expressionist’s 1955 oil work is at last back in its original location and prepared for display. The University of Arizona Museum of Art will feature it as the focal point of a lengthy show beginning on October 8 and running through May. The show will detail the entire incident of the theft and its recovery in 2017 via New Mexico. It has spent the last two years being restored and displayed at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The painting will be back where it was taken, but it will be protected by a case.
