Ben Cabrera paintings - lost and missing by Fed Ex

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

This is a shocking news and very depressing to know that 2 paintings by Ben Cab was missing or maybe stolen while it was picked up and secured bty Fed Ex. Arvin our art/culture blogger reported this in his blog via a post from Lopez Museum. The paintings was about to ship from L.A. to Singapore. If you know anything about the paintings that is being sold elsewhere, pls report it.

here's a snippet of the letter from the art gallery

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March 8, 2010

Dear Ben,

I cannot even start to tell you how genuinely sorry and mortified I am to be writing you this letter.

After two weeks of back and forth, I finally received notification from Fed Ex, instructing AndrewShire Gallery to formally proceed with a claim against the company, since they had failed to locate the two paintings that were shipped via Fed Ex from the Gallery in Los Angeles, to Singapore.

The irony of course is that Fed Ex picked up the paintings, carefully wrapped and package-sealed in a tube, at the Gallery in Los Angeles on February 26, and delivered an empty tube to me in Singapore on March 8, with the cover having been carefully sawn off, but with my address and details clearly stamped on the tube.

I have already filed a police report in Singapore, and it is my earnest hope that their investigation will reveal the details that Fed Ex is withholding from me –

Read more about this news at
Alert on Missing/Stolen BenCab Paintings