Are You Missing A Picasso, Morandi, or Giacometti?

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for the public’s help finding the owners of hundreds of pieces of art, some of which were stolen, that were uncovered in a New York City apartment in 2006. In an effort to track down the owners, the FBI and the Public Administrator of New York County posted pictures of the most important pieces on their website. More than 300 works of art, including paintings, sketches, sculptures, and other pieces by such artists as Pablo Picasso, John Singleton Copley, Alberto Giacometti, Giorgio Morandi, and Eugene Boudin, were discovered after the death of the apartment’s occupant, William M.V. Kingsland.

According to the FBI, “Kingsland was well known in New York City’s art circles as an engaging and intelligent connoisseur of art, books, architecture, and genealogy. But when he died, he left no will…and no apparent heirs to claim the floor-to-ceiling stacks of paintings and art works crammed into his one-bedroom apartment.”

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