The Case of the Missing Will

How did a New York patrolman come to own paintings museums now buy for up to $1.9 million? Papers for a 1992 show said an old woman left them to him in her will; no will has surfaced, and his beat was the wrong side of town. Three men who helped him sell say he pulled them from a dumpster outside the artist's old building, handed over by a superintendent who gave up waiting. He died in 2021 fearing a claim that never came.

How a New York patrolman came to own the Yllanes paintings now selling to museums for millions is still two stories: papers for a 1992 exhibition said a lonely old woman left them to him in her will, but no will has ever surfaced and his beat was on the other side of town, while three men who helped him sell the art say he pulled them from a dumpster outside the Columbia building where the artist had lived, handed over by a superintendent who had given up on anyone claiming them; the officer died in 2021 fearing a claim that has never come.

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