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E Fabres

DARK SECRETS: Experience i stole a rodin sculpture from a museum | Vintage Vibes

E Fabres outside the National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile
‘There was no alarm, no cameras’: E Fabres outside the National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile. Photograph: Sofia Yanjari/The Guardian

I was an art student in Santiago, Chile, when I was invited to the National Museum of Fine Arts for a private event in June 2005. I had some drinks and needed the bathroom, which was downstairs.

On the way, I went into a very dark room – I couldn’t even see the palms of my hands. Then, unknowingly, I walked into Rodin’s Torso of Adele, a small sculpture that is just 11cm high and 37.5cm wide. When I touched it, it was cold. It was the first time Rodin had been exhibited in Chile.

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