Picasso’s stolen painting discovered in New York Automatic translate

NEW YORK. Picasso’s painting, stolen over ten years ago from Paris, “surfaced” in the United States, where it was sent under the guise of a regular parcel.

La Coiffeuse (Hairdresser), written in 1911, was found back in December, in a batch of FedEx mailings sent from Belgium to New York. The canvas smuggled was stolen from the storerooms of the Center Georges Pompidou, a museum and art center in Paris, and its whereabouts have not yet been known. The accompanying documents indicated that the parcel, worth $ 37, packed in festive "Christmas" paper, contains the item "art craft / toy." The sender is one Robert, the receiver is one of Long Island, NY stores. When US Customs and Border Guards inspected the shipment, they found a stolen painting. Under US federal law, an imported product may be seized by the government if it is known that it was stolen or transported illegally.

The painting belongs to the French government, it was bequeathed to the National Museum of France by one of its former directors. The canvas was last exhibited in Munich in 1998, and then returned to Paris, where it was stored in the storerooms of the Pompidou Center. Officials did not even suspect that the painting was stolen until the moment the canvas was asked to be rented in 2001. After the painting, worth $ 2.5 million, was not found in warehouses, it was announced that it was stolen.

French officials arrived in New York last month in order to study the picture, and confirmed that it was indeed the original “La Coiffeuse”. Last Thursday, Loretta E. Lynch, a lawyer in eastern New York, filed a civil lawsuit to bring Picasso back to France.

Anna Sidorova © Gallerix.ru