Missing Picasso Spotted at Home of Former Philippines First Lady

New York Post ^ | May 13, 2022 | Natalie O'Neill

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A missing Pablo Picasso painting was spotted at the home of the Philippines’ controversial former first lady — as she celebrated her son’s presidential victory, according to a former official familiar with the artwork.

Imelda Marcos — the widow of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos — was filmed hugging her son, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., in footage that aired this week with the apparent long-lost masterpiece “Reclining Woman VI” hanging on a wall behind them.

The bombshell in the background was broadcast in a news segment by the local station TV Patrol Tuesday after Marcos Jr. became the country’s next president in a landslide victory.

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• Philippines Launches Online Search for Imelda Marcos’s Missing Masterpieces
  Imelda Marcos is implicated again.
  Henri Neuendorf, December 1, 2015

  [snip] Last year, police recovered a small number of the paintings in two raids on private properties. However, based on documents seized during the couple’s time in exile, about 200 works are still unaccounted for. The missing works include Picasso’s Reclining Woman VI, Michelangelo’s Madonna and Child, Francisco de Goya’s Portrait of the Marquesa de Santa Cruz, and a still life by Paul Gauguin. [/snip]

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