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Sculptures Stolen for the Copper
This story doesn’t exactly belong to the category of “art found at the wrong place”, but should serve as an awareness piece: if you see something dismantled - pay attention.
Sometimes people throw things away without realizing their artistic value, sometimes - they know the value, but sell it cheap: for the raw material. In this instance, the art did not belong to the sellers and they sold it.
Here is the story of art found at the junkyard. This time it’s “thirty stolen bronze sculptures…valued at $1 million” by the artist’s estimate. Sculptures were stolen from the artist’s Joel Fisher’s studio. Not that the thieves were big art aficionados, they were simple guys, stealing the bronze pieces just for the copper’s content in it. The weight of the pieces sometimes reaches hundreds of pounds.
Copper wiring is the new target for the thieves, so anything goes, too.
Bronze, which contains copper, values about $3 per pound, which is a huge increase in value since 2004, when it was 75 cents per pound.
“…Authorities recovered 23 sculptures weighing a total of about 3,000 pounds from the scrap yard, which paid more than $4,000 for them.”
(Source: www.msnbc.msn.com )
I hope you don’t have a bronze fence, dated a few centuries back, guarding some very secluded place. Nobody may notice its disappearance…
