Six Stolen Picassos Found Under Pile of Clothes in French Home
Seven suspects were arrested in connection with the theft of the prints from L’Amandier restaurant in the south of France.
French authorities recovered six stolen Pablo Picasso prints from under a pile of clothes in a French Riviera home on Tuesday, November 3, and apprehended seven suspects, according to a press release from the French National Gendarmerie. The identities and details of the artworks have yet to be made public. On the night of October 1, two masked intruders broke into L Amandier, a restaurant nestled in the village of Mougins, while a getaway driver remained alert.
The duo successfully stole six of the displayed artworks in the restaurant's Salon Picasso lounge. The stolen prints, valued at over €100,000 ($112,208), were found in pristine condition behind clothes and toolboxes in a village home they searched, as reported by Le Monde. Picasso initially arrived in Mougins in 1936 and later resided in Notre-Dame-de-Vie for the last 12 years of his life.
The L Amandier restaurant's Salon Picasso lounge is dedicated to the Spanish artist and his influence on the former farming village, which transformed into a popular tourist destination after his arrival. The recovered artworks' titles and descriptions remain undisclosed.
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