20 Things You Didn't Know About SPECTRE (2015)

11. Modigliani

Spectre Drill Torture
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In SkyFall, Sévérine and assassin, Patrice (Ola Rapace) kill a man who is inspecting artist, Amedeo Modigliani’s famous painting, Woman with a Fan (1919), which was stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris in May 2010.

Arriving at SPECTRE's base concealed inside a sprawling crater in Morocco, Madeleine Swann sees an old photo of herself and her father, Mr White during happier times; Woman with a Fan is hanging on the wall of her bedroom behind her.

This suggests that, just as Dr. No (Joseph Wiseman) had stolen Francisco Goya’s Portrait of The Duke of Wellington (1812-1814) prior to the events of the 1962 Bond film, Blofeld purloined Modigliani's priceless work of art and loaned it to Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem) for use in his sick schemes.

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