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a valuable 1919 pablo picasso The painting has mysteriously disappeared while being taken to a temporary exhibition in the South Spanish City of GrenadaDue to which police investigation started.
The Cajagranada Foundation, which is organizing the protest, confirmed the damage in a statement released late Thursday. The missing artwork, a small framed gouache titled ‘Still Life with Guitar’, was part of a larger consignment of pieces delivered from Madrid to the Andalusian city. It was destined for the exhibition ‘Still Life: The Eternity of Inertia’.
The foundation confirmed on Friday that the painting, owned by a private collector and measuring 13 x 10 centimeters (5 x 4 inches), was insured for an estimated value of 600,000 euros ($700,000).
The shipment was delivered to the CasaGranada Cultural Center on the morning of Friday, October 3.
The damage was not discovered until the following Monday, when the exhibition’s curator and the foundation’s head of exhibitions began unpacking the crates.
“Since not all packages were properly numbered, it was not possible to conduct a thorough investigation without opening them,” the foundation said.
The Cajagranada Foundation said it had reviewed security footage from that weekend and confirmed that “no incidents occurred” during that time.
The foundation filed a complaint with Spain’s National Police after discovering the painting was missing.
The organization said it has made all of its resources available to investigators and expressed confidence in the ability of authorities to solve the case.