Where in the world are Marcos art trove?

In the 1970s business crony Jose Yao Campos held domestic and overseas real estate, companies, and securities in behalf of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. He deposited $2 million into the New York bank account of Ferdinand’s Panamanian-registered Arelma Foundation. That deposit is worth $40 million today.

A separate $3.8 million was plunked into the Swiss bank account of Imelda’s Liechtenstein-registered Trinidad Foundation. That deposit Imelda used to purchase foreign artwork. Notable among those was the 1899 painting “Le Bassin aux Nympheas,” from the French impressionist Claude Monet’s water lily series. Campos confessed to all that in settling criminal and civil suits with the Philippine government in 1986, following the People Power Revolt that toppled The Conjugal Dictatorship.

In 2014 the Monet painting resurfaced when surreptitiously sold in New York by Imelda’s former personal secretary Vilma Bautista. A collector had taken it away for $32 million before the authorities could seize the Marcos plunder loot. Recovered from Bautista were three other items in the vaunted Marcos trove: another Monet, “L’Eglise et La Seine a Vetheuil,” Alfred Sisley’s “Langland Bay,” and Albert Marquet’s “Le Cypres de Djenan Sidi Said.”

The Marcos collection is said to number between 150 to 215. Fighting over

The priceless collection includes masterpieces by Raphael, Renoir, Picasso, Monet, and Manet, among 150-215 others.

possession of the priceless artwork are not only the Marcoses and the Philippine government, but also Marcos’ martial law torture victims. Consisting of famed masterpieces, those include:

Abraham Janssens: Peace and Plenty Binding the Arrows of War;

Alessandro Boticelli: Madonna and Child;

Alessandro Magnasco: Christ Heals the Cripple, St. Jerome, Mother with Child, Couple of Farmers with Children;

Amadeo Modigliani: Jeanne Hebuterne; Amico Di Sandro: Virgin and Child; Andrea Della Robbia: Madonna and Child;

Andrea Di Bonaiuto: Enthroned Madonna Surrounded by Saints;

Andrea di Niccolo: St. Agostino, St. Biagio; Andrew Wyeth: Moon Madness; Anna Mary Robertson Moses, a.k.a. Grandma Moses: Total of 18 pieces;

Antonio Giovanni Canaletto: La Piazetta of Saint Marcus Square, Padua Landscape with Prato Della Valle, View of the Grand Canal in Front of Saint Marcus Square with the Doggia Palace, The San Marco Basin with the Island of San Giorgio, The Departure of the Bucentaur on Ascension, Portico of a Venetian Palace, The Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge;

Barent Avercamp: Winter Pleasures with a Horse-Drawn Sleigh;

Benvenuto Di Giovanni: The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary;

Bernardino Fungai: Resurrection with Two Angels;

Bonnard Pierre: Baignard Au GrandLemps;

Camille Pissarro: Jardin de Kew Pres Dela Serre;

Casper Netscher: Young Woman with a Parrot;

Claude Monet: Rain, a.k.a. La Pluie, Le Bassin aux Nymphease, a.k.a. Japanese Footbridge over the Water- Lily Pond at Giverny, L’ Eglise et La Seine a Vetheuil, a.k.a. L’Eglise a Vetheuil;

David Teniers the Younger: A Rugged Hilly Landscape wih Elegant Figures and Monks at a Grotto;

Dirck Hals: Interior with Musicians and Backgammon Players;

Edgar Degas: Danseuse S’habillant, Trois Danseuses, Le Petit Dejeuner a la Sortie du Bain;

Edouard Manet: Mary Laurent a la Violette;

El Greco: Coronation of the Virgin;

Fra Filippo Lippi: St. Julian and the Martyrdom of St. Caterine of Alexandria, Madonna and Child;

Francesco Guardi: Imaginary View with Marine Life, Building and Arch of Triump, Piazza San Marco, Parade of Allegoric Floats in the Piazza San Marco, Caprice with Small Bay in a Lagoon, Inside a Harem, Capricio, Triumph of a Roman Warrior, Basin of San Marco, At the Drinking Trough;

Francesco Zuccarelli: Landscape with Shepherd, Landscape with Shepherdess, Hillside Landscape, Landscape;

Francesco Zugno: Death of Cleopatra, Meeting of Rinaldo and Armida;

Francis Bacon: Self Portrait, Masturbation;

Francisco Goya: La Marqueza de Sta. Cruz;

Francisco Zurbaran: The Holy Family, David and Goliath;

Francois Boucher: The Apotheosis of Aeneas, L’Aube;

Frans Hals: Portrait of a Young Man, Portrait of a Young Woman; Gerrit von Honthorst: The Seduction; Giacomo Amigoni: Bacchanal; Gianantonio Guardi: Temperance, The Fortress;

Giandomenico Tiepolo: The Minuet, Bust of Bearded Oriental Man with Turban, Bust of Bearded Oriental Man;

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio: Madonna with Child; Giovanni Battista Crosato: Salome; Giovanni Battista Piazetta: Greedy Child and Miserly Old Woman; Giovanni Battista Pittoni: Holy Family; Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: Portrait of a Bearded Man, Madonna with Child among St. Anthony, St. Francis and St. Ludwig of Toulouse, Portrait of a Young Man; Giovanni Bellini: Madonna with Child; Giuseppe Zais: Open- Air Minuet, Large Landscape with Figures, Landscape, Landscape with Figures and Small Bridge;

Henri Fantin Latour: Sweet Peas, Roses Tremieres/Hollyhocks; Henri Matisse: Head of a Woman; Jacobo Del Sellaio: Nativity; Jacopo Robusti, Il Tintoretto: Miraculous Catch, The Wise Men at the Temple, a.k.a. Christ Among Doctors; Jan Cossiers: Jesus Crucified; Jan Steen: Merry Making in a Dutch Garden, a.k.a. Elegant Company on a Loggia;

Michele Marieschi: Landscape with Village, Imaginary Landscape;

Pablo Picasso: Head of a Woman, Fruit Dish, Bottle, and Guitar; Reclining Woman;

Paul Cezanne: Landscape, Aix- enProvence;

Paul Gauguin: Still Life with Idol, Fruits;

Paule Gobillard: 52 works, mostly portraits;

Peter Brueghel the Younger: The Adoration of Kings;

Peter Paul Rubens: The Virgin and the Child, a.k.a. The Cumberland Madonna;

Piet Mondrian: Undetermined Title, painting with yellow, white and blue, Eucalyptus;

Pierre Auguste Renoir: Painting of Undetermined Title, Jeunes Filles au bord de L’eau;

Pietro Longhi: The Charlatan, The Fortuneteller; Raphael: St. Catherine of Alexandria; Sir Anthony van Dyke: An Apostle (St. Simone?)

Titian: Portait of Giulio Romano; and Vincent van Gogh: Peasant Woman Winding Bobbins.

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