Valued at $15 million, the Picasso painting, La Coiffeuse (French for The Hair Dresser) was stolen from the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris, in 2001 only to show up in a FedEx box in Newark this last December.
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Not a very well drawn picture. No way, will it ever match up to velvet Elvis or Dogs Playing Poker. Now that is art! A modern artist that tells a real story will always beat some old amateur painter every day of the week!
There’s no evidence to show that Hillary stole the painting.
even if her fingerprints are on it.
Is this progressivism or communism? How the hell is that a work of art?
Is it because it’s a Picasso and he says it’s ‘La Coiffeuse’ so it is?
It looks more like sails on ships. The art world is out of it’s funking mind.
Hairdresser? Hell no.
Right in the middle, there is a trapezoidal shape pointing straight down. The top is the shoulder and the bottom is the elbow. You can see a face just to the left of it. To the right you can see the leg bending at the knee.
This is a painting of a Transformer. Probably Megatron.
I’ve got better art from the benefit sales at the developmentally disabled group home. If the French want it, they’re welcome to it.
Someone paid $15M for this?
What a steal.
I have one of those in my scrap iron pile.
I was going to say that I really liked it. But then I clicked on the story and saw it up close.
From that little tiny image here, I thought it, too, looked like sails (like Joan thought) and the color is pleasant shades of brown. Then I ruined it by looking at the bigger image.
Yuk.
Picassos’ Brown Period.
No worries, the koranimals will destroy it soon. The gendarmes will give them the keys to the museum and provide an armed escort.
they should have paid he thieves to keep it instead
I visited the Picasso Museum in Barcelona. He was an astute classical painter in his early years but was starving because he could only produce one painting every two weeks. He changed to the impressionistic style and could produce a painting in two hours and sell them to the duped public for bigger bucks. That gave him the rest of the day to pursue debauchery. (By the way, I did pick up a nicely framed vintage Velvet Elvis at a garage sale this weekend for twelve bucks.)