The French Customs Service today told EFE that were intercepted Friday in Corsica, a Picasso valued at over 25 million, belonging to the Spanish banker Jaime Botin and that 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 a filtration that work, “Head of young woman,” would be exported by air, and showed up on the boat in which he was saved.
The boat, 67 meters long and British flag, moored in the Marina Calvi, belongs to a company based in the British island of Guernsey, and its captain was not Spanish, said the deputy director of the Customs Service of Corsica, Vincent Guivarch.
Man , according to their information, “only could present an evaluation of the work, as well as a written report in Castilian May 2015 of the Spanish National Court, confirming that it was a Spanish national treasure that under no circumstances could leave Spain “.
The box belonged to Botin, 79, who was not present when agents aborted this attempt to export, which was not carried out his name, but he planned to embark days later, he added Guivarch.
The painting, paper-covered 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 , 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.
The work had been considered “unique” by responsible for the Spanish Historical Heritage, while the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid had stressed his “exceptional importance”.
The case stems from the request made on 13 December 2012 the firm Christie’s auction Iberian to the Spanish Secretary of State for Culture for final export to London.
The Board of Classification, Valuation and Export of Spanish Historical Heritage Assets agreed a few days later to deny authorization “absence of work like in the Spanish territory. “
The agency argued that it was” one of the few works by the author in the period Gósol stage where Picasso is clearly influenced by the plastic of Iberian art and the findings carried out at that time have a decisive influence, not only in Cubism, but also on the subsequent evolution of the painting of the twentieth century. “
The Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Assets and Archives Libraries and Spain, in fact, not only denied permission, but called on the competent authority that the declared work of cultural interest.
The French authorities now expect the eventual request of their Spanish counterparts to recover the work, acquired by Botin in January 1977 from the Marlborough Fine Art in London bound for his private collection in Spain.
Pending their repatriation, the picture has been guarded ” in a safe place, “he added the representative of the local customs, according to which this case is” essentially a dispute between Botin and Spain “.
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