Painting of Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland Briefly Goes Missing

A 16-hour Chelsea caper.

DianaVreelandPaintingEarly Tuesday morning, at around 2:45 a.m., a patron of the Dream Downtown hotel in Chelsea helped themselves to one of the items of an upstairs lobby exhibit by street artist Bradley Theodore. A fanciful portrait (pictured) of Diana Vreeland, who was the editor in chief of Vogue magazine from 1962 to 1971.

Roughly 16 hours later, the painting was returned to the hotel, via messenger. From the Page Six item:

“He [the thief] was ballin’ at PHD and jacked my painting at the end of the night! Those drinks ain’t cheap,” Theodore said.

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