US EditionPicasso Painting that Vanished in Spain Found: Police
The 1919 Picasso gouache 'Still Life with Guitar,' valued at €600,000, disappeared during transport but was recovered, with police suspecting it was never loaded onto the truck.
- On Friday, Spanish police said a Pablo Picasso painting that vanished en route to an exhibition has been found, but authorities did not disclose its location.
- When the truck's contents were unpacked on October 6th, the curator noticed the Picasso piece missing, and initial investigations suggest it may not have been loaded onto the transport truck; all items had been under video surveillance since arrival three days earlier.
- A 1919 gouache-and-pencil, `Still Life with Guitar`, valued at around 600,000 euros, is shown in police images of scientific experts examining the recovered package.
- The foundation expressed hope that the recovered `Still Life with Guitar` will still be displayed as part of the exhibition, which opened on October 9th and runs until January 11th.
- Picasso's works are frequently targeted by thieves because of their high value, with two paintings recently selling for more than $140 million and the 1976 Palais des Papes theft stealing more than 100 works.
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Picasso painting mistakenly taken by neighbour found safe in Madrid
EARLIER this month, a worrying report was filed with the police: on October 10, a Picasso painting was reported to have disappeared, ahead of a special exhibition in Granada, in which it would feature. Now, local police have located the work by Spain’s most famous artist, called Still Life with Guitar, and more relieving yet, the circumstances of its disappearance amount to an innocent mistake by… Source
It was found. The painting Nature mort à la guitare, painted in 1919 by the famous Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, was found, Friday 24 October, a month after announcing his disappearance, reports Le Parisien. The painting had disappeared at the beginning of October when it was transferred between Madrid and Granada, where it was to be exhibited. Loading... The Granada Museum was reported ten days earlier, on 16 October, of the unexplained absenc…
Spanish police said Friday that a Pablo Picasso painting that went missing on its way to an exhibition has been found, raising questions about whether it was ever loaded onto a truck.
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