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Spanish Police Investigate Picasso Painting Missing in Transit to Granada

Investigators are focusing on custody gaps during specialist transport to a planned Granada exhibition.

Overview

  • Fundación Caja Granada reported the absence on October 10 after staff noticed the work missing during a video-monitored unpacking and inventory.
  • Police confirmed an active investigation on October 16 and said no arrests have been made.
  • The painting, Nature morte à la guitare, is an early 20th-century oil estimated at about €600,000.
  • Local reports say the piece was collected from a private home in Madrid, stored at a transport company warehouse on September 25, and the shipment reportedly spent a night in Deifontes before delivery.
  • Authorities are reviewing storage and transit records, with accounts noting disorganized labeling during delivery, and organizers say all works in the exhibition come from private collections.