Sculpture thieves strip Picasso from Athens museum
The burglars still triggered a sensor dressed in the exhibition area, but a guard single got near dressed in occasion to set eyes on a staff running inedible. in the company of the stolen installation was a cubist female bust by Pablo Picasso, which the Spanish artist had donated to Greece in the field of 1949 with a dedication in the field of service to the Greek those in lieu of their resistance to Nazi occupiers throughout planet War II. The thieves additionally took a 1905 representative grease painting of a waterside windmill by Mondrian, famous in place of his anon abstract linear plant, and a drawing of St. Diego de Alcala by Caccia. All three workings were stripped from their frames. The skill gallery contains mostly 19th and 20th century Greek painting, but had merely wound up a put on view of its western European collections so as to include prints and etchings by German master Albrecht Duerer and Rembrandt front Rijn.