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A Picasso painting, said to have been gifted to the Athens National Gallery by the artist himself, gets stolen.
Two other valuable works of art, a Mondrian painting and a sketch by Italian artist Guglielmo Caccia, were also reported missing. The theft occurred on Monday at around 05:00 local time.
The Woman's Head was given to the Greeks in 1949 as a token of appreciation for their resistance against the Nazis.
"Picasso's Woman's Head is a Cubist bust created by the artist in 1939; The Mondrian work dates from 1905 and is an oil painting of a riverside windmill; Caccia's religious scene of St Diego de Alcala is a pen and ink drawing." (BBC News)
The museum is a host to numerous post-Byzantine Greek artworks as well as a few works dating back to the Renaissance.
Source: BBC News
Two other valuable works of art, a Mondrian painting and a sketch by Italian artist Guglielmo Caccia, were also reported missing. The theft occurred on Monday at around 05:00 local time.The Woman's Head was given to the Greeks in 1949 as a token of appreciation for their resistance against the Nazis.
"Picasso's Woman's Head is a Cubist bust created by the artist in 1939; The Mondrian work dates from 1905 and is an oil painting of a riverside windmill; Caccia's religious scene of St Diego de Alcala is a pen and ink drawing." (BBC News)
The museum is a host to numerous post-Byzantine Greek artworks as well as a few works dating back to the Renaissance.
Source: BBC News
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