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Turkish gendarmery seize Picasso's stolen painting in northwestern province
BALIKESIR (A.A.) - 27.03.2011 - Turkish gendarmery forces confiscated a stolen painting by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso in the northwestern province of Balikesir on Sunday.
Acting on a tip-off, gendarmery staged an operation and caught a person who came from Istanbul to sell the painting.
Gendarmery forces seized the painting that was said to be Picasso's.
"Picasso 1924" writes in the front of the painting, whereas there is a stamp of the Museum of Kuwait in the back of the painting named "The Naked Woman".
The painting was stolen from the Museum of Kuwait during the Gulf War I in 1991.
Balikesir Museum executives said the market value of the painting was around 10 million USD.
Picasso is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and worked in. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
Acting on a tip-off, gendarmery staged an operation and caught a person who came from Istanbul to sell the painting.
Gendarmery forces seized the painting that was said to be Picasso's.
"Picasso 1924" writes in the front of the painting, whereas there is a stamp of the Museum of Kuwait in the back of the painting named "The Naked Woman".
The painting was stolen from the Museum of Kuwait during the Gulf War I in 1991.
Balikesir Museum executives said the market value of the painting was around 10 million USD.
Picasso is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and worked in. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
