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Dubbed as “the FBI’s real Indiana Jones” and “the most famous art detective in the world,” Wittman spent 20 years recovering more than $300 million of stolen art and cultural property.
Sharing some of the tales in his bestseller, Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures (Crown, June, 2010), he will recount notorious heists and daring recoveries of priceless antiquities; paintings by Rembrandt, Monet, Picasso; and artifacts such as a rare Civil War battle flag. He also will report on attempts to find masterpieces that are still at large,
such as the $500-million theft in 1990 from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
Supporting Sponsor: Waterworks. Book-signing reception to follow.
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