Picasso’s work lost in traffic between Madrid and Granada

A work on paper by Pablo Picasso left Madrid two weeks ago and its whereabouts between there and its intended destination of Granada are unknown, according to a report Thursday. national newspaper.

“The half-page-sized work was apparently shipped from Pinto (Madrid) to the company’s headquarters along with 56 other works,” Javier Arroyo wrote in the report. “They all arrived and are now on display at the ‘Still Life. The Eternity of Inertia’ exhibition at the Caja Granada Cultural Center. All traces of Picasso’s work seem to have been lost in a most peculiar journey.”

The hard life of a guitarBuilt in 1919, it belongs to an unknown private collector and is said to be insured for €600,000 (approximately US$700,000). According to police investigating the theft, the vehicle transporting the work and 56 other works to the same exhibition was stopped during the night, an odd move since the driving time between Madrid and Granada is only about four hours and the overnight stop was less than 20 miles from the final destination.

“There, two people on the boat, apparently down on their luck, took turns guarding the items being transported,” said national newspaperthe newspaper pointed out that “this newspaper has tried to contact the logistics company responsible for the transshipment, but without success.”

The next day, after the artworks were delivered to the Caja Granada Cultural Center, staff at the institution discovered that a particularly famous Picasso work was missing. The shipment is said to have taken place in a video-surveilled area, but according to the exhibition manager, “not all packages were correctly numbered, [so] A thorough inspection cannot be carried out without unpacking. “The batch of works delivered over the weekend remained in Caja Granada and after a careful inventory on Monday morning, The hard life of a guitar Found missing.

“We are also open to investigation and we have every confidence that this case will be resolved appropriately,” the CajaGranada Foundation said in a statement.

Nearly two weeks later, the piece remains missing. Police said they were trying to determine when the piece disappeared and no arrests had been made yet.