In 2021, award-winning journalist Marc Fennell released the documentary series Framed, which uncovered the theft of Picasso’s The Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in 1986 – the most expensive painting in Australia at the time. Now Fennell is back with another, even more bizarre, story that takes us to a Spanish Monastery in regional WA four decades ago, where 26 European masterpieces were slashed out of their frames.
‘I remember when Corrin recounted the story to me and he started talking about this 200-year-old Spanish monastery in the middle of the Western Australian bush, I was like, “Sorry, what?!”’
