“Head of a Young Woman” Pablo Picasso , owned by banker Jaime Botin , worth estimated at more EUR 25 million and declared inexportable by the Spanish authorities, was seized Friday in a boat anchored on the island of Corsica , today announced the French Customs.
A “attempted export to Switzerland from the customs office of Bastia (Corsica northeast) of a Picasso painting,” Head of a Young Woman ‘”on Thursday, attracted the attention of French officials said the French customs in a statement.
The next day, customs agents Calvi (northwest of the Mediterranean island) “were the ship carrying the work, docked in the marina” of the Corsican town, and called the “documents relating to the situation of the picture,” continues the text.
“The captain could only present an evaluation of the work and an act of judgment written in language Spanish, May 2015, emanating from the Spanish National Court and confirmed that it was a Spanish national treasure that in no case could go to Spain. “
“It confirmed that it was a Spanish national treasure that under no circumstances could leave Spain”
The table, “from an estimated more than 25 million euros”, according to the Customs Service, is owned by Jaime Botin, famous Spanish banker whose family took part in 1857 in founding the Banco Santander , today first Spanish banking group.
Jaime Botin, 79, vice president of Santander between 1999 and 2004, maximum current shareholder of Bankinter, was not aboard ship of the British flag and owned by a partnership of which he is a shareholder, said a spokesman for the office.
The export application registered in Bastia not listed in his name, he also said.
A first application was filed in December 2012 in Spain to export definitely the country the picture, bound for London.
The Minister of Education, Culture and Sports Audience then objected and in 2015 National confirmed the “inexportabilidad” of the work for belonging to the “cultural assets” have no right to leave the country.
The French authorities now expect the eventual Spain claim to recover the work, belonging to the period of the Malaga painter, who was then 24, in the town of Lleida Gósol (one hundred paintings the summer of 1906), crucial for the further development of Cubism. The Cubist oil painting teacher shows a woman with long black hair.
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