Imelda Marcos Had Over 300 Missing Masterpiece Paintings

Imelda Marcos art collection reads like a who's who of master painters. Authorities believe she possessed works by Picasso, Gauguin, Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Rembrandt, and Rafael among others. When the Marcoses fled in 1986, hundreds of paintings disappeared with them. The Presidential Commission on Good Government started with a list of more than 300 missing paintings, and even decades later, about half remain unaccounted for. Some have resurfaced in unexpected places, including a Monet Water Lilies painting that ended up in the possession of Imelda former aide, who tried to sell it to a London gallery for $32 million. The whereabouts of the rest remain one of the art world's great mysteries.