‘Woman-Ochre’ Comes Home

Willem de Kooning’s “Woman-Ochre,” stolen from the University of Arizona Museum of Art in 1985 and unexpectedly returned more than three decades later, underwent a two-year restoration at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and was on display there June 7-Aug. 28. It was the first time the public had been invited to view the restored painting since it was stolen by a pair of thieves more than three decades ago.

The shocking theft — and the painting’s unexpected return to the university in 2017 — made international headlines and is the subject of the forthcoming documentary “The Thief Collector,” directed by Allison Otto.

After exhibition at the Getty, “Woman-Ochre” returned home to Tucson for exhibition at the UArizona Museum of Art.