In a stealthy overnight heist, burglars slipped into the Paris apartment of Picasso's granddaughter and spirited away two portraits of women the artist loved, slicing one of the paintings out of its frame. Two people in the apartment of Diana Widmaier-Picasso at the time didn't hear them make off with the art treasures, police said. The burglars left few clues, and police said they were not sure how the intruders gained entry. The two paintings together are worth an estimated $66 million. "Maya and the Doll," which the thieves cut out of its frame, shows Widmaier-Picasso's mother, Maya, as a young girl in pigtails, eyes askew in an off-kilter Cubist perspective. Another version hangs in the Picasso Art Museum in Paris. "Portrait of Jacqueline" was one of many that depict Picasso's second wife Jacqueline Roque, whom he married in 1961 when he was 79 years old and she was in her mid-30s. The stolen paintings are important because the artist chose to keep them, said Pepe Karmel, an associate professor at New York University and the author of "Picasso and the Invention of Cubism." "They were meaningful to him." (For full source and article click the Headline)
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$66 Million Picasso Heist
In a stealthy overnight heist, burglars slipped into the Paris apartment of Picasso's granddaughter and spirited away two portraits of women the artist loved, slicing one of the paintings out of its frame. Two people in the apartment of Diana Widmaier-Picasso at the time didn't hear them make off with the art treasures, police said. The burglars left few clues, and police said they were not sure how the intruders gained entry. The two paintings together are worth an estimated $66 million. "Maya and the Doll," which the thieves cut out of its frame, shows Widmaier-Picasso's mother, Maya, as a young girl in pigtails, eyes askew in an off-kilter Cubist perspective. Another version hangs in the Picasso Art Museum in Paris. "Portrait of Jacqueline" was one of many that depict Picasso's second wife Jacqueline Roque, whom he married in 1961 when he was 79 years old and she was in her mid-30s. The stolen paintings are important because the artist chose to keep them, said Pepe Karmel, an associate professor at New York University and the author of "Picasso and the Invention of Cubism." "They were meaningful to him." (For full source and article click the Headline)
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