Picasso 'and another' stolen from Greece's National Art Gallery

January 9 2012

Image of Picasso 'and another' stolen from Greece's National Art Gallery

Pic: Picasso, Woman's Head, 1939. National Gallery, Athens.

By LH: We start today with some sad news following a break-in at Greece's National Art Gallery. 

One of the works to have been stolen is a Picasso gifted to the gallery in the 1940's by a French association. 

No information has been released as to the indentity of the second work, but we do know that the museum was just about to finish an exhibition containing works by the likes of Durer and Rembrandt. Amazingly, despite alarms being sounded in 'one of the best-guarded parts of the Greek capital', the thieves escaped undetected.

The gallery was set to close for a large refurbishment project...lets hope security is on that agenda somewhere.

Read more here.


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