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Lost Picasso found
08/04/2005 19:22 - (SA)
Paris - French police have recovered a painting by Pablo Picasso, which disappeared a year ago from a workshop belonging to the Pompidou Centre in Paris, officials said on Friday.
"Nature morte a la charlotte," a small Cubist work completed in 1924, was last seen in the workshop where it was being restored in January last year, and its disappearance was reported in May.
After a tip-off police traced the painting - valued at $3.2m - to a house in the Paris suburb of Antony, where it had been hidden behind a wardrobe.
The work - a still-life in shades of brown and blue centred round a tart on a plate - was handed over on Friday to the president of the Pompidou Centre, Bruno Racine.
- AFP
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