“Ladies and Gentleman, this is a robbery…"
X23 LEAVING THE BATTLEGROUND is a reimagining of “Leaving The Paddock" (LA Sortie Du Pesage) by Edgar Degas, one of thirteen 19th century stolen masterpieces featured in Netflix’s latest docuseries, “This Is A Robbery.”
Just after 1am on St Patrick’s Day 1990, two men in fake moustaches posing as police conned their way into a Boston museum —81 minutes later, 13 treasures disappeared into the night.To this day 30 years after the theft, the 500 million dollar cache of artworks by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Manet, and Degas is still missing, with a reward of 10 million dollars posted for information that leads directly to their successful return, and empty...