A painting of Pablo Picasso valued at more than half a million euros disappeared this Thursday during a transfer in still life with picasso guitar . The Spanish police reported that an investigation is already underway but did not provide more details: the case is under investigation. summary secret.
According to the newspaper Ideal from Granada, the oil on canvas is valued at 600,000 euros and was going to be exhibited last week at the shows “Still Life”of the Caja Granada Foundation.
A painting by Pablo Picasso disappeared during a transfer in Spain
All the works in the exhibition in the Andalusian city come from private collections, according to a statement from the organizing entity. The high value of Picasso’s works made them favorites of thieves: Just to mention a few numbers, two of his paintings have exceeded US$140 million at auctions in recent years.
His works have already suffered theft in previous times: in 1976, a theft of more than 100 paintings exhibited at the Palace of the Popes from the French city of Avignonconsidered one of the most important in history. On that occasion, everyone was finally recovered.
An unpublished painting by Pablo Picasso goes up for auction in Paris and a million-dollar figure is expected
At the beginning of September, a portrait of the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso of his partner and muse Dora Maar was presented in a Paris auction house. It was a condition practically unknown to the general public, according to experts.
Titled Bust of a Woman with a Flowered Hat (Dora Maar), the painting It was painted in July 1943 and it had been in the hands of the owner family since 1944. Until today it had never been exhibited, except in a private exhibition that the painter organized in his workshop in those years, explained the auctioneer. Christophe Lucien.
The canvas, of cubist style and full of color, shows Dora Maar’s face with a flower headdress and a sad expression. “This exceptional work marks a milestone in the history of art and in that of Picasso,” said Agnès Sevestre-Barbé, a specialist on the painter, when presenting it.
When Picasso made this painting, one of the last portraits he made of Maar, he already knew who would be his new partner, Françoise Gilot. According to Sevestre-Barbé, that could explain the look of sadness on the woman’s face.
Source: Ambito
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