[Phsstpok]

A thousand bucks for the safe return of a Matisse and a Picasso?

a piece by the famous Matisse's grand daughter (a copy of a famous Picasso at that) and a print of a Picasso. Valuable, but probably not something you could put the kids through college on.

I've heard that normal finders fee from insurance companies for professional investigators is between 5% and 10% of the assessed value of the returned property. It's likely that the $1,000 is low, but not that low. Particularly since it's apparently being put up by the framer and not by the insurance company. I hope this one has gone through.

Of course, with all of this publicity, how much you wanna bet there's a hundred thugs hanging out at the subway station waiting to grab the paintings to hold for ransom, while another hundred is looking to hit up either party for the $1,000.

[blau993]

I'm with you. $1,000 (plus the leather case) for the return of these two pieces is probably a fair reward. Picasso prints are always of questionable value, both because he made so many of them to begin with, and because there have been so many forgeries made over the years.