Picasso Painting Disappears en Route to Granada Exhibition
Spanish authorities are investigating the disappearance of Pablo Picasso’s ''Still Life with Guitar'', a €600,000 painting that vanished in transit to a Granada exhibition featuring privately owned works. ©Wikipedia

Spanish police are investigating the disappearance of a Pablo Picasso painting valued at €600,000 ($700,000), which vanished en route from Madrid to Granada ahead of a major cultural exhibition. The missing work, Still Life with Guitar, was scheduled to be displayed as part of a show featuring privately held pieces by the iconic 20th-century artist.

Spanish police are investigating the disappearance of a Pablo Picasso painting, which vanished while in transit from Madrid to the southern city of Granada for an exhibition, authorities said Thursday.

Still Life with Guitar, an oil-on-canvas painting valued at 600,000 euros ($700,000), was scheduled to go on display at an exhibition organized by the Caja Granada foundation last week, local newspaper Ideal reported.

All pieces in the show come from private collections, the foundation said.

National police sources confirmed that the painting's disappearance was under investigation but provided no further details, citing confidentiality rules.

Thieves have frequently targeted Picasso works given their high value, two of his paintings sold for more than $140 million at auctions in recent years.

One of the most notorious thefts occurred in 1976, when more than 100 of the artist's paintings were stolen from the Palais des Papes Museum in Avignon, southern France.

All the work was eventually recovered.

Picasso, who was born in 1881 in Malaga in southern Spain and died in 1973, is widely acknowledged as one of the most important artists of all time.

He challenged conventional ideas and experimented with a wide range of styles and themes throughout his long career.

With AFP

 

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