Port authorities in Newark, New Jersey have seized a thought to be lost Picasso painting. The artwork titled La Coiffeuse -- The Hairdresser in English -- was painted by the Spanish artist in 1911, and had been missing from the Paris Musée d'Art Moderne storage room since 2001. The oil-on-canvas was discovered on its way to a climate-controlled Long Island storage facility, FedExed from a sender in Belgium named only as "Robert." To avoid detection, perpetrators had labeled the priceless artwor...
Port authorities in Newark, New Jersey have seized a thought to be lost Picasso painting. The artwork titled La Coiffeuse -- The Hairdresser in English -- was painted by the Spanish artist in 1911, and had been missing from the Paris Musée d'Art Moderne storage room since 2001. The oil-on-canvas was discovered on its way to a climate-controlled Long Island storage facility, FedExed from a sender in Belgium named only as "Robert." To avoid detection, perpetrators had labeled the priceless artwor...
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