'I hung the Picasso on my wall for a night, thereby making my apartment one of the most expensive in Amsterdam for a day'
had changed hands at least 10 times, but was finally stolen from Saudi Arabian billionaireDutch art detective Arthur Brand poses during an interview with AFP in north London, the UK, on January 20 2019. Picture: AFP/NIKLAS HALLE'NA Dutch art detective dubbed the “Indiana Jones of the art world” has struck again, finding a Picasso painting worth €25m stolen from a Saudi sheikh’s yacht on the French Riviera in 1999.
In 2015, Brand first got wind that a “Picasso stolen from a ship” was doing the rounds in the Netherlands, although “at that stage I didn’t know which one exactly”. “Two representatives of a Dutch businessman contacted me, saying their client had the painting. He was at his wits end,” said Brand. “He thought the Picasso was part of a legitimate deal. It turns out the deal was legitimate — the method of payment was not.”
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