s French Customs ervice Efe said they had intercepted Friday in Corsica Picasso worth over 25 million euros, belonging to the Spanish banker Jaime Botin, which was bound for Switzerland despite being declared as exportable by the Spanish authorities.
Officials in the office of Bastia, in the northeast of the island, were notified through filtration that work, “Head of young woman” , was exported by air, and appeared at the boat in which he was saved.
The boat, 67 meters long and British flag, moored in the marina of Calvi, belongs to a company based in the British island of Guernsey, and its captain was not Spanish, EFE said the deputy director of service Customs Corsica, Vincent Guivarch.
The man, according to his information, “could only present an evaluation of the work, and a report written in Castilian May 2015 of the Spanish National Court confirming that it was a Spanish national treasure that in no case could go to Spain. “
The box belonged to Botin, 79, who was not present when agents aborted this attempt to export it was not done in his name, but he planned to embark days later added Guivarch.
The table covered in paper-bubble was already packed and ready to be transferred.
The Spanish Justice had prohibited the brother of the late president of Banco Santander, Emilio Botin, get him out of the country last May and endorsed a decision by the Ministry of Education of July 26, 2013, which confirmed that it could not be exported.
work had been considered “unique” by those responsible for the Spanish Historical Heritage, while the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid had stressed its “exceptional importance”.
The case stems from the request made on December 13, 2012 the signing of Christie’s Ibérica to the Secretariat of State of Spanish Culture for final London export.
The Board Classification, Valuation and Export of Goods of Spanish Historical Heritage agreed a few days later deny authorization to the “absence of a similar work in the Spanish territory.”
The agency argued that it was “one of the few works performed by the author within the period Gósol stage where Picasso is clearly influenced by the plastic of Iberian art and findings conducted at that time have a decisive influence, not only in Cubism, but also on the subsequent evolution of painting the twentieth century. “
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