New York Post

Point of ‘return’ in Qns. pic heist

- Daniel Prendergas­t, Gina Daidone and Bruce Golding

Cops are hoping to catch the thief who swiped two pricey photograph­s from a museum wall — thanks to a surveillan­ce image of a woman shipping back the purloined prints.

The NYPD on Sunday released photos and a 20-second surveillan­ce-video clip of the suspect (inset) carrying a large FedEx box containing the stolen artwork into a Williamsbu­rg shipping center.

After handing the package to a counter clerk, she chats briefly with the worker before reaching into a pocket, apparently to pay for the parcel.

The box arrived Friday at the Museum of Modern Art’s PS1 annex in Long Island City, where the black-and-white photos — valued at $55,000 and $50,000 each — were discovered missing on Oct. 30, officials said.

There was no note inside, according to police.

The gelatin-silver prints, shot by Alex V. Sobolewski, both feature a nude woman with her rear to the camera and were back on display Sunday as part of the “Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting” exhibition.

One is titled “CS with Radiator, 1965” and shows the woman standing with her hands pressed against a wall; the other, “CS in the broken mirrors on the back of Four Fur Cutting Boards, 1965,” shows the subject crouched in the lower righthand quadrant.

The suspect shipped the photos from Office 11211 at 223 Bedford Ave. at around 5:50 p.m on Thursday.

Several nearby merchants said Sunday they didn’t recognize the woman in the surveillan­ce video.

She could face charges of criminal possession of stolen property and grand larceny if cops can tie her to the theft.

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