Saturday, December 6, 2014

Picasso stolen in Miami Art Fair – The Universal


 A work of Spanish master Pablo Picasso , one silver valued at $ 85,000, was stolen from Art Miami , the largest satellite fair Art Basel.
 


 


 David Smith, owner Leslie Smith Gallery in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, told the “Miami Herald” this Friday, to get to the tent where exposed parts of the cultural space, found the empty base plate.
 


 


 Exhibitors reported the theft to the police in Miami, who came to the place where the tents of the fair are, in the area known as Midtown, to take traces of theft on the premises.
 


 


 The work of the master of cubism, with a nose, eyes and mouth marked on the forehead and hands on both sides of the plate, is valued at $ 85,000 and would have been stolen in the night of Thursday, the day the Art opened Basel.
 


 


 Both Art Basel as satellite fairs attract thousands of tourists and collectors around the world who flooded the streets of Miami and Miami Beach over the weekend.
 


 


 
 


 


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