After 65 years, the fate of the Picasso painting stolen in 1961 has been revealed

After 65 years, the fate of the Picasso painting stolen in 1961 has been revealed

More than six decades ago, a Pablo Picasso painting loaned from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum for an exhibition and later vanished without a trace has resurfaced. The museum has taken legal action to recover the artwork.

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According to the art publication “Hyperallergic,” the Guggenheim Foundation filed a lawsuit this month with the New York State Supreme Court against Massachusetts residents Lawrence Jay Handler and Wendy Cohen Handler. The museum claims that the couple possesses a small painting titled “Femme dans un fauteuil” (“Woman in an Armchair”), painted in 1918, which disappeared from the University of Pittsburgh in 1961.

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