Here we have Pablo Picasso's 1938 portrait of his lover Dora Maar which Picasso kept in his own collection and though he dated the painting he never signed it. In port in the Antibe,s on the french Riviera she was stolen from the 75m yacht called "Coral Island" that she was on during maintenance on the Yacht.
The painting was protected by a special alarm but was removed from this alarm and placed in a room on the yacht with a Matisse hanging near by still protected by it's alarm and as a result not stolen. The art and artifacts on board the yacht were being packed up to be put into a vault while the yacht was refurbished.
The painting was last seen on March 6, 1999 by the art packer when he came back on March 11 to gather objects to be sent to the vault the painting was gone. To the Arab owner of the Yacht the paintings value is pocket change though a half million pound reward is offered for it's return.
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