February 16, 2007

Rescued Goya joins Guggenheim's El Greco show

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes’s painting "Children with a Cart" which was stolen from a truck outside a rural Howard Johnson hotel last year while on its way to the Guggenheim Museum, has finally joined its intended show: "Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth, and History."

In November, the painting was being transported in an unmarked truck from the Toledo Museum of Art. The 1778 painting, which critics said was under-insured at only $1 million, was later turned in to the FBI. They returned the painting to Toledo, where it briefly went on public display. The Goya has now been installed at the Guggenheim, where it will remain through March 28, the final date for the Spanish Painting exhibition, museum officials said.

Earlier: Stolen Goya returned undamaged; NYC visit canceled
Stolen: Goya's Guggenheim-bound 'Children With Cart'

February 16, 2007 03:55 AM in Museums, Sightsology, Upper East Side

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