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Picasso sketchbook stolen

6/10/2009 | Posted by mesiamd | Edit Post

A priceless sketchbook by Pablo Picasso worth about 7 to 10 million euros ($10.4 million to $15 million) mysteriously disappeared in a museum in Paris, France. According to reports, the missing book contained 33 original Picasso cubistic drawings which dated from 1917 to 1924.

Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973,) a Spanish painter, illustrator, ceramist and sculptor had been one among most famous artists in the 20th century. A gifted prolific master of the canvas, he made countless of valuable artworks----1,885 paintings; 1,228 sculptures; 2,880 ceramics, some 12,000 drawings, thousands of prints, and underdetermined number of art on cloth and rugs.

Included among his well-known masterpieces until his death at the ripe old age of 91 were: Garçon à la pipe, (Boy with a Pipe), 1905, Guernica (1937) and The Weeping Woman (1937) Close to a thousand of his artworks had been missing.

“Picasso's works, among the world's most valuable, have frequently been targeted by thieves over the years. In 1976, in one of the largest ever art robberies on French soil, 118 Picasso works were stolen from a museum in the southern french city of Avignon. Two Picasso paintings worth an estimated £33 million have been stolen from his granddaughter Diane Widmaier-Picasso’s apartment in Paris.”

In 1997, a gunman walked into a central London art gallery, ripped a Picasso worth more than a million dollars from the wall - "Tete de Femme", painted in 1939 - and fled in a taxi, but the work was later recovered." ---- Telegraph.co.uk (02/28/09)

The recent theft baffled police authorities, No indication of a forced entry in the Picasso Museum was noted. (Photo Credit: Tamer Youssef)=0=

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