“A victim of the thriving commodities market.”

Last April, thieves stole a large metal sculpture (bronze or copper, accounts vary) by Julian Schnabel. Police recently recovered one remaining piece of it — at a scrapyard:

It’s worth more than an Academy Award and is a whole lot bigger. But only one-fifth of a $250,000 bronze and copper sculpture made by artist and director Julian Schabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfliy) [sic] has been recovered by Connecticut police, with the rest having been disposed of (read: melted down) at a Norwalk scrap yard. Per a report in the Danbury New Times, 49-year-old suspect Patrick Lancey has been charged with the April 2008 theft of the sculpture, which was being stored at the time outdoors at Mariano Brothers Specialty Moving. Police also are suggesting that Lancey was not working alone and therefore more arrests may follow.

- By Staff @ FilmStew: August 14, 2008: Link.
Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 2:55 PM

“Of the five pieces of the sculpture, only the dog survived the trip to the scrap yard.”

More details @ The Brookfield Journal:

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Read the rest of Julian Schnabel’s Scrap Metal (235 words)

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