Picasso’s Stolen portrait, Dora Maar found after 20 years

Dora Maar, the stolen Picasso painting has been found out by A Dutchman known as the “Indiana Jones of the art world”. This painting worth 25 million euros ($28.3 million) had been stolen from a Saudi shaikh’s yacht on the French Riviera in 1999.

Arthur Brand says that this portrait was there at the Dutch criminal underworld after it had been stolen. Brand claimed that the painting was handed back to an insurance company. The ‘Portrait of Dora Maarwhich’ was first painted in 1938, and it is also known as Buste de Femme (Dora Maar).

Dora Maar was the lover and muse of the great artist Pablo Picasso, for seven years. It is believed that Picasso had kept this portrait hung in his room until his death.

Arthur Brand had found this painting of the most influential mistresses of Pablo Picasso after a four-year investigation into the burglary on the luxury yacht Coral Island.

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