On August 4, 2014, Cal Lane, a Canadian artist based in New York, shipped three boxes each containing three of her large Veiled Hood Stain prints to her gallery in Montreal, Art Mûr. The works were to be featured in her solo show at the gallery the following month, Veiled Hoods and Stains. However, her UPS shipment was stopped at the border and, after the gallery’s customs broker intervened, only two of the three boxes arrived in Montreal on August 13. When UPS failed to locate the missing box of prints, the postal services company PostNet launched an investigation, but to no avail. A few weeks later, with no leads, the case was closed. Then, on August 5, 2015, one of Lane’s missing prints, “Veiled Hood Stain #8″ (2014), turned up on the estate liquidation and downsizing auction website MaxSold.
Artist Shocked When Her Art, Lost in Transit, Turns Up at Auction