Introduction to this blog:

Bracelets (bling); gold spray paint and cheap rhinestones on handcuffs.

I am Charles Sabba. I am an artist, a police captain with over 28 years of law enforcement service, an art loss consultant and an investigative journalist. A large part of my artistic voice is an on going discussion of the murkier side of the art underworld. You can view my different bodies of art works by scrolling down through this blog. You can also view here my involvement in the art theft/ art crimes investigative world, my CV and artist statement, some of my articles I have written, and my complete artist biography from birth until present. This blog’s posts are set up in chapters of my artistic life from the earliest post to present (I will be blogging new art works soon):
Chapt 1: My complete artist biography from birth to present: an art life.
Chapt 2: Artists and art world habitues who had an influence on me.
Chapt 3: Biography: My art theft/ art crimes involvement.
Chapt 4: Articles written
Chapt 5: Street art and murals.
Chapt 6:  Gaeta Italy: Photos of Gaeta, Italy, the pearl of the Mediterranean (the 2nd home of the artists Cy Twombly and Charles Sabba).
Chapt 7: Sabba’s photography.
Chapt 8: Artist CV and artist statement.
Chapt 9: Art of Homo Mediterraneus and Homeric expeditions.
Chapt 10: Portraits of some artists and other creative people.
Chapt 11: Performance art.
Chapt 12: Bullet Bees.
Chapt 13: Fingerprint ink drawings.
Chapt 14: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Robbery Visual Investigation Portraits.
Chapt 15: Art theft portraits and art crimes art.
Chapt 16:  Stolen art fingerprint ink drawings.
Chapt 17: Huffington Post Article: The Double Life of Charles Sabba.
Intro.
You can also view more at my web site:
Www.yourbrushwiththelaw.com

The art theft investigative journalistic team at the New York Athletic Association located at 180 Central Park S, New York. Jill Rackmill, Charles Sabba (standing), Brian Ross, and William P. Youngworth III.

https://lawandcrime.com/ross-investigates/

https://lawandcrime.com

Chapter 17: Huffington Post: How A New Jersey-Born Cop Learned To Embrace His Artistic Side This is the fascinating story of Charles Sabba and his double life.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cop-by-day-artist-by-day-off-this-outsider-artist-lives-a-double-life_n_56956643e4b086bc1cd58b96

Bracelets; gold spray paint and cheap rhinestones on Smith & Wesson handcuffs.

CULTURE & ARTS

How A New Jersey-Born Cop Learned To Embrace His Artistic Side

Huffington Post.

This is the fascinating story of Charles Sabba and his double life.

By Priscilla Frank

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cop-by-day-artist-by-day-off-this-outsider-artist-lives-a-double-life_n_56956643e4b086bc1cd58b96

Chapt 16: Stolen Art Fingerprint Ink Drawings

Stolen Manet: Chez Tortoni; Fingerprint ink on police criminal print card done in the artist's fingerprints; by Charles Vincent Sabba Jr. 
“…In Sabba’s version of the stolen painting, the eyes of the gentleman were large and round and dark. He looked sadder and more contemplative than in the original. The fingerprint card asked for the arrestee’s name, height, weight, and social security number, but the spaces were blank except for the daubed re-creation of the stolen image, which rose above the form’s lines and boxes, as if it couldn’t be restricted by categorization. But the work could also be read as an argument that art itself was an illegal act, a way to transgress and transform, to keep ideas alive through robbery and rip-offs. Thieves swiped the original-Sabba made a copy.” –Written by Ulrich Boser in his book: The Gardner Heist; Harpers Collins; 2009. 

Stolen Rembrandt: Self Portrait, Stolen From the Isabella Stewart gardner Museum in 1990, fingerprint ink on 8"x 8" police print card, 2004.

Stolen 12th Century Chinese Gu, Stolen From the Isabella Stewart gardner Museum in 1990, fingerprint ink on 8"x 8" police print card, 2004.

Stolen Munch: The Scream;

Stolen Modigliani; Stolen in Milano, Italy on 9 Feb 1987; recreated in fingerprint ink on police fingerprint card; 8"x8."

Stolen Mario Sironi/ a orse with rider; stolen from Milano, Italia in July 1969.

Stolen Carlo Carra'. Stolen Sept 22, 2013 from Carbonara di Bari.

Boston Police Department Sketches of the Suspects in the Gardner Museum Robbery; 2010.

Boston PD Composite Sketches of the Suspects in the Gardner Museum Robbery; 2010.

STOLEN PICASSO (stolen in SWITZERLAND): TETE DE CHEVAL,

Fingerprint ink on official police fingerprint card, 8" x 8,"  2010.

Picasso Bullfight; this drawing was stolen in Toulouse, France on 17 June 2010.

Stolen Modigliani: Stolen in Paris in 19 May 2010.

Stolen Mario Sironi: stolen from Torino, Italia on Aug 18, 1987.

Stolen on 31 July 1992 in Palermo, Italy: Renato Guttuso's A Woman Pulling Garment Over Her Head,

Stolen Massimo Campigli: Five Women Out Walking; stolen on 21 Feb 1972 from Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italia

Stolen Matisse: Pastorale; Stolen from the Modern in Paris on Thursday, May 20, 2010.

Stolen Marc Chagall: L'Apparition; Stolen from Stocksund, Sweden on 19 July 1990.

Stolen Mario Sironi: Man in Profile; stolen on 2 June 1970.

Stolen Jean deBuffet I. Stolen in Firenze, Italia on 23 Giugno 1981

Stolen Jean deBuffet I. Stolen in Firenze, Italia on 23 Giugno 1981

Stolen Francesco Clemente: stolen from Fillacciano, Italia.

Stolen Rembrandt: Storm on the Sea of Galilee; Stolen in 1990 from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Modigliani Looted by the Nazis; was sequestered in Geneva in April of 2016 after its current owner's identity was uncovered in the Panama Papers" leak. It was secretly owned by an off shore company International Art Center (IAC). The work was stolen by the Nazis from Jewish art dealer Oscar Stettiner, who fled Paris in 1930. The artwork is valued at 22 million euros. 

Stolen Leonardo DaVinci: Madonna With The Yarnwinder; stolen on 2003 in an armed robbery from Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland.

Stolen Modigliani: Stolen in Paris in 19 May 2010.

Verre et pichet ("Glass and pitcher): Stolen from Museum in Switzerland.

Stolen: Pablo Picasso; Dance;1956. Was stolen from the museu chacara do ceu, Rio de janeiro on Feb 24, 2006.

Stolen Picasso: Colombe (A Dove); stolen from Madrid, Spain on 15 Nov 1978.

Stolen Picasso: A La Jeunesse; Stolen in Paris, France on 1 Aug 2005.

Stolen Jean Cocteau: Two Faces; stolen on 23 Dec 1995 in Neuilly Su-Seine, France.

Stolen Cezanne: Boy With Red Vest; Stolen in Feb 2008 in Zurich. It was valued at $91 million. Was recovered in Serbia in April 2012

Edvard Munch's Madonna: Stolen on 29 March 1990 from the Gallery Kunsthuset in Oslo, Norway; Oil paint and fingerprint ink on police fingerprint card.

 Stealing the Chinese Gu from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum back in 1990.

Stolen Picasso: Coq; stolen on 1 Aug 2005 in Paris, France.

Stolen Scream Wanted by the F.B.I.; Fingerprint ink on gessoed Federal Bureau of Investigations Wanted Card; 2010.

Photo from my one man show at the Y Gallery New York in 2010 (When the Y gallery was on the Bowery).

                               

Photo from my one man show at the Y Gallery New York in September 2010 (When the Y gallery was on the Bowery).

Photo from my one man show parallel Avant Gardes: On Subversiveness and Criminality at the Y Gallery New York in 2015 (after the Y gallery moved to 319 Grand Street in the Lower East Side).