Posted on 02/28/2007 6:55:38 AM PST by Aquinasfan
PARIS (Feb. 28) - At least two Picasso paintings, worth a total of nearly $66 million, were stolen from the artist's granddaughter's house in Paris, police said Wednesday.
The paintings, "Maya and the Doll" and "Portrait of Jacqueline," disappeared overnight Monday to Tuesday from the chic 7th arrondissement, or district, a Paris police official said.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said they were worth nearly $66 million.
The director of the Picasso Museum, Anne Baldassari, said several paintings and drawings were stolen from the home of Diana Widmaier-Picasso.
"It was a very large theft," Baldassari said, without giving details.
Police only confirmed the theft of the two paintings.
"Maya and the Doll" portrays Maya Widmaier, the artist's daughter and Widmaier-Picasso's mother.
No other details were immediately available.
Hopefully these theives did something useful with Picasso's work, like lining a birdcage.
Maya and the Doll. What a laugh!
Here's some real art.
They're up on my 'frigerator.
My kid would get a C on that in her art class, and she's in ninth grade.
You know nothing of Picasso.
I had the same feelings until I went to the Picasso Museum in Paris and discovered the depth and scope of his work. The guy knew his craft, inside and out. He lived his art.
I'm not a fan of Picasso's either, but I don't think theft should be condoned, even considering the quality of the work.
Just my 2 cents.
You want bad art?
I got your bad art right here!
http://www.museumofbadart.org/
Anyone know where Sandy Berger was?
remember the scene in "TITANIC" where Billy Zane had Picasso's and his finace loved them and Zane said "mark my words,this will not be a hit"......lol
Picasso was clearly insane if he thought his paintings represented reality.
Only a satantically diseased mind could could so so distort and disfigure humanity in "art".
With any luck they will never be returned.
Picasso was inspired by looking at the paper at the bottom of his bird's cage - which he didn't change often.
Wasn't me.
. . . who is demanding a ransom of $66 million before she'll take them back.
Watch for an explosion near the Champs Elysee soon.
Here we go again.
The back and forth between those who find representative art the height of artistic achievement and those with an eye for the abstract.
But of course, we cannot like what we like without denigrating someone else's body of work, apparently.
I prefer art that challenges me.
For a little perspective ... my mother is a painter of the abstract sort ... and my daughter went to a magnet middle school for the fine arts. I have spent my fair share of time (and a few other's share as well) in museums and galleries by virtue of their talents and interests.
are should be art. Not enough coffee!
Which is more than I would pay for that rubish.
Picasso was clearly insane if he thought his paintings represented reality.
Only a satantically diseased mind could could so so distort and disfigure humanity in "art".
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Words fail me.
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