Police in Winnipeg are asking the public for clues as they try to solve a theft of two paintings from an art gallery's warehouse, and while the pieces aren't famous or even particularly valuable, one of them is a favourite of the woman who painted it.

"Lady of the Lake," a 2021 oil painting by Marianne Thompson depicting the Grace Anne II, an 85-foot mahogany yacht built in the early 1930s, was one of two paintings that police say were taken sometime between 5:43 p.m. on Aug. 14 and 5:42 a.m. on Aug. 15 from a warehouse in the 200 block of McDermot Avenue.

Const. Claude Chancy said the warehouse was part of an art gallery. An unknown suspect or suspects entered it by breaking a window, stole two paintings worth almost $9,000 and fled the building.

Chancy said the two paintings were the

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