Spanish police said Friday that a Pablo Picasso painting that vanished en route to an exhibition has been found, raising doubts if it was ever loaded onto a transport truck.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Still Life with Guitar,” a 1919 gouache and pencil work valued at around 600,000 euros ($700,000), disappeared in early October while being transported from Madrid to the southern city of Granada.<\/p>\n
The artwork, which belongs to a private collector in the Spanish capital, was set to be displayed as part of a new exhibition at the CajaGranada Foundation.<\/p>\n
But when the truck’s contents were unpacked on October 6, the curator noticed that the Picasso piece was missing.<\/p>\n
All items delivered by the truck had been under video surveillance since their arrival three days earlier, the CajaGranada Foundation said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The missing painting was reported to police, who confirmed its recovery on Friday, though they did not disclose where it was found.<\/p>\n
“Initial investigations suggest that the painting may not have been loaded onto the transport truck,” said a National Police statement.<\/p>\n
Police released images of their scientific experts examining the package containing the recovered piece.<\/p>\n
The foundation expressed hope that “Still Life with Guitar” would still be displayed as part of the exhibition, which opened on October 9 and runs until January 11.<\/p>\n
Picasso’s works are frequently targeted by thieves due to their high value. Two of his paintings recently sold for more than $140 million at auction.<\/p>\n
In 1976, more than 100 Picasso works were stolen from the Palais des Papes in Avignon, France. All the pieces were eventually recovered.<\/p>\n
Picasso, born in Malaga in 1881 and who died in 1973, is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spanish police said Friday that a Pablo Picasso painting that vanished en route to an exhibition has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[4781,77,2000,299,388,141770,14966,141769,141771,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-524921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-celebrity","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-lifestyle","13":"tag-philippine-star","14":"tag-philippines","15":"tag-philippines-news","16":"tag-philstar","17":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115429622909826003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}