MADRID (AP) .- The Spanish authorities sent on Tuesday a team of police experts to the French island of Corsica to recover a Picasso painting owned by a Spanish banker, who is considered a national treasure.
Four experts from the Civil Guard national heritage experts and representatives of the Ministry of Culture blew up Tuesday morning to retrieve “Head of a Young Woman”, a work valued at about 24 million euros (26 million dollars) said a spokesman for the Civil Guard.
It is expected that the delegation returns later Tuesday with paint, said the spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity in compliance with the rules of the organization.
The painting is owned by the banker Jaime Botin – brother of the late Emilio Botin, chairman of Santander Group -., was seized in late July by the French police, who found in a boat off the coast of Corsica
The National Court said in May that the picture could not leave the country, supporting an earlier decision of the Ministry of Culture. The ruling is appealed to the Supreme Court.
On his return home, the painting will travel to the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, responsible for the center said.
Corsican authorities said in a statement August 4 they received a clue as an attempt to introduce the valuable painting smuggled into Switzerland.
The oil, which comes from the “pink period” of Cubist master and shows a woman with long hair Black, was seized a cargo ship on Friday when the captain could not present a certificate.
On the boat, authorities say, a document in Spanish confirming that the work was found ” cultural interest “and was banned from leaving Spain, the land of Picasso
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