Posted on 08/27/2009 11:54:10 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Special forces have recovered a stolen Picasso and arrested a man planning to sell the painting during a raid of his house in southern Iraq, Iraqi police said Wednesday.
The painting, "The Naked Woman," apparently had been among the artwork looted from Kuwait during Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion, said police spokesman Maj. Muthana Khalid.
It was seized Tuesday during a raid on the house belonging to the suspect near the mainly Shiite city of Hillah, about 60 miles (95 kilometers) south of Baghdad. Khalid said the man was trying to sell the painting for $450,000, but some Iraqi experts who saw the painting said it was worth $10 million.
The painting, which was signed by Pablo Picasso and bore inscriptions from "The Museum of Kuwait" was being held as evidence while the suspected was interrogated, Khalid said. It appeared to have been folded several times in a picture of the painting that was released.
Goods and artwork from the neighboring country's wealthy homes and its national museum were hauled back to Iraq after the invasion, which led to the 1991 Gulf War.
I think it would be hard to sell a painting during a raid on your house.
A classic misplaced modifier...
LoL! That's who I was going to say, but I had a brain fart and couldn't remember the old bats name.
But this is NEWS!........................
Looks like he folded the painting up and put it in his wallet next to his unused.....r——r...... ;)
If HT had posed for Picasso, he’d have poked his eyes out rather than cut off his ear......................
Figures.
I'd have it tested first.
I would recommend testing it afterwards, also.
Who did the Kuwati’s steal it from?
“lol, rather her than Helen Thomas, who might have posed for Picasso for all I know.”
I laughed for a minute....
I’ve dealt with a lot of Kuwatis in business.
They’re generally very honest and good guys.
(And keep in mind, I may live in the USA right now, but I am a native Israeli.)
What was he going to do with it - go into the desert with a laptop and list it on Ebay?
That can’t be a real Picasso it looks too much like a naked woman.
ping
No kidding. :(
No, that is silicon.
You got off easy....I posted a GIF of a cartoon caricature scratching his gnuts thru his skivvies and got a full week........I guess it was the "movement" that got the mods cranked.
Just likenesses of Mu-hammed.
But I'm surprised there was a nude woman painting in a museum in Kuwait. They're pretty conservative there.
Iraqis are actually more relaxed about things like that.
(But they still shouldn't have swiped all that stuff from Kuwait.)
No, it's not. "Silicon" is a hard, glasslike mineral used to make electrical semiconductors. The squishy polymer used in breast implants is "silicone" <-- notice the 'e'.
Gadzooks. What kinds of barbarian steals a painting and then FOLDS it up? Yeesh. Savages.
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