The Modigliani on the Fence: How a Stolen Master Reappeared in Plain Sight
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The Modigliani on the Fence: How a Stolen Master Reappeared in Plain Sight
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A gilt-framed Modigliani turned up leaning against a cedar fence in rural Ohio on July 9, 2019 - undamaged, not hidden, and facing the road as if someone expected it to be found. The canvas, stamped on its stretcher bars and carrying century-old craquelure, had been insured and declared stolen a year earlier; why was it left in a field and who had been showing it in museums under a false identity?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of calls, conservation records, insurance payments and museum paperwork that connect a Scottsdale collector, a Granville conservator, a Delaware LLC and a small Columbus museum - and ask how a painting insured for $6.1 million could be exhibited publicly with clean loan documents. What did the craquelure, customs stamps and condition reports reveal about the painting’s true path?
Person: Douglas Crane
Person: Laura Porter
Date: July 9, 2019
Location: Morrow County, Ohio
Event: Ketterly Museum exhibition (late April-mid July 2019)
- The painting measures 26 by 21 inches and is oil on canvas, circa 1917.
- Douglas Crane bought the painting in 2011 for $4.2 million and reported it stolen in June 2018.
- Barrow Indemnity paid $6.1 million on the insurance claim in October 2018, roughly $1.9 million more than Crane’s 2011 purchase price.
- Laura Porter treated the painting during a six-day visit in 2016 and spoke with Crane 11 times across 14 months before the theft report.
- The museum catalog listed the work as "Reclining Figure Study, c.1917. Anonymous loan. No provenance history," and the loan was exhibited for about two and a half months.
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