I guess Oldman couldn't have had insurance for the paintings, because he didn't officially have them - or did he legally buy them from Billy?
What hump?
Hard to have insurance for $8m on a painting you paid &250k for.
shareWe don't know whether or not ownership was transferred to Virgil legally. I would imagine so, but this is not spelled out in the film.
My opinion, it doesn't matter. Not only because he couldn't have insured many of them for their true value and identities anyway, but also and mainly because he owned them for personal pleasure, not profit.
Maybe he could get some insurance money, maybe not... but if he could, it wouldn't ease the loss any.
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I don't think there was ever a transfer of ownership. Virgil and Billy just had an understanding. That's why it was a sure thing for Billy to steal the paintings...he already owned them. And that's what Virgil realized when he went to the Police station. He couldn't say they'd been stolen because legally they belonged to Billy, anyway.
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He couldn't report it either way. Consider how he got them.
But like I said, it really doesn't matter. Money was never the point.
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Well, it was a part of the point. Notice Virgil didn't collect reproductions, no matter how lovely. And Billy wouldn't have done such an elaborate hoax for fakes either. The point, it seems to me, was to own or steal a very valuable object, that also happened to be beautiful.
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