Thief walks out of art gallery with $20,000 Salvador Dalí etching

  • 26 Oct - 01 Nov, 2019
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A thief casually stole an etching created by the legendary artist Salvador Dalí by walking into an art gallery and simply plucking it off its easel. The suspect, a man wearing a blue T-shirt and baseball cap, strolled into San Francisco’s Dennis Rae Fine Art and walked out with an etching titled “Surrealistic Bullfight: Burning Giraffe,” created by Dalí between 1966 and 1967. “It’s quite important as far as the period of etchings,” Angela Kellett, the gallery’s director, explained to the news station. “It’s very, very well known. It’s a beautiful piece. It was inspired by Picasso first.” In surveillance footage of the theft, the man is seen walking into the gallery as a woman accompanying him stands outside. He walks out with the large etching just seconds later.

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