| ▲ | tonyedgecombe 2 hours ago |
| For a while members of the mafia we’re stealing them to trade against their sentence if they got caught for some other crime. |
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| ▲ | dofm an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Or, since it’s a Renoir, maybe they were planning to distribute them as punishment. “Thought you were going up in the world, did you Salvo? Oh no, no Armand Guillaumin for you. The boss ain’t pleased and he wants you to know about it. One more screwup and you’ll end up with a face like that” |
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| ▲ | john_strinlai an hour ago | parent [-] | | i saw your other comment, and now this one. i dont really know much about art, and i'd love for you to help me understand your apparent disdain for renoir | | |
| ▲ | dofm an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/... | | |
| ▲ | jerf an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Ah, the classic "picture is worth a thousand words" move. Well played. | | |
| ▲ | dofm 28 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I could have picked a considerably worse face, too. But this is a painting of his own young son, Jean (who went on to be a legendary director, screenwriter, actor). So one presumes there's a method in it, because nobody hates a kid that much. |
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| ▲ | john_strinlai 40 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | i did not know they did yaoi hands in 1800s france. point taken. |
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| ▲ | Cpoll an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Renoir's kind of "pop" as far as Impressionists go. Laypeople like him because his work is easy to look at, but trained artists can find a lot to fault in his technique and composition. He was also kind of an asshole. | | |
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| ▲ | SoftTalker an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Admit to additional crimes in exchange for a lighter sentence? How does that work? |
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| ▲ | dh2022 40 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Plea bargaining. Green river serial killer admitted to more killings (and cooperated to recover some of his victim’s bodies) in exchange for avoiding the death penalty : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway#Plea_bargain,_con... | |
| ▲ | DASD an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Crime gravity. If able to provide the solution to a crime that is considered more serious(or of greater value to the prosecuting entity's purview). | |
| ▲ | goodcanadian an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I doubt they admit to anything, but having some information that helps lead to the recovery of a valuable item could be worth something. To be honest, this is the first I have heard of the practice, but it sounds plausible to me. | |
| ▲ | xp84 20 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | "Hey, I don't have any idea how it got there, but I heard some guy talking about a famous stolen painting that's stashed right here in this neighborhood. Apparently a Renoir." |
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