A STOLEN PICASSO BOARD FOUND

The painting, also called Bust of a Woman, had disappeared twenty years ago from the yacht of a Saudi Sheikh.

Twenty years of police research, twenty years in vain until Indiana Johnes of the art market, Arthur Brand, get their hands on it.

For the little story :

The painting, representing the mistress of the Spanish artist, was part of Picasso's private collection until his death before belonging to a Saudi Sheikh who had hung it in his yacht.

In 1999, while the boat was moored in the port of Antibes, the painting was stolen ...

It was only in 2015 that a mysterious letter informs our Detective Brand of the existence of "a Picasso and a boat".

Brand also learns that a "Picasso stolen from a boat" was used as a bargaining chip in illicit transactions in the Netherlands.

Mid-March, it sounds in the middle of the night at the door of Mr. Brand.

A man working for a Dutch businessman gives him the famous cloth wrapped in a sheet and black garbage bags.

It took four years of investigation to our true Indiana Johnes detective.

"Since the theft (in 1999, ed), the painting had to have changed ownership a dozen times," says Brand in Le Monde.

A feat among many others for this hero like no other.