# @gettymuseum on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CODnWuvHm7T
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34229377-gettymuseum-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/b65f4c9bf1.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-04-24T17:07:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty (@gettymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/gettymuseum

## Caption

This painting by Willem de Kooning has a dramatic history—in 1985 it was sliced from its frame, stolen from the @UAZMuseumofArt, and hidden away.

For 32 years, the painting's whereabouts were unknown. It was discovered again in 2017. Since 2019 the painting has been in Getty's paintings conservation studio, where a team of conservators and scientists have been working to reunite the stolen painting with the edges of the sliced original canvas left behind by the thieves.

Here's a peek at the painting in the conservation studio in honor of de Kooning's birthday. He was born #onthisday in 1904.
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🏷️: #getty #willemdekooning #dekooning #uazmuseumofart #conservation

## Stats

- **Views:** 15,376
- **Likes:** 1,448
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- **Comments:** 43

## Tags

getty, conservation, uazmuseumofart, dekooning, willemdekooning, onthisday

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