The court ordered the former electrician Picasso to return more than 250 works by the artist
ARTinvestment.RU   20 марта 2015

The court found 75-летнего Pierre Le Henneke guilty of concealing stolen property

Pierre Le Henneke, while working as an electrician Pablo Picasso, the court found guilty of concealing stolen property. It is about 271 genuine work of Pablo Picasso, somehow caught in possession Les Henneke and his wife Danielle. The court ordered the defendants to return all these works. 75-year-old Le Henneke and his wife was also sentenced to two years of probation for the fact that they hid this collection of about 40 years. Prosecutors demanded a five-year conditional zakluchenia@

Originally Pierre Le Gennek argued that the collection of cubist collage, watercolors, gouaches, lithographs and drawings was donated by the artist him and his wife Jacqueline Roque in gratitude for the installation of alarm systems on three villas Picasso. In 2010, the elderly electrician appealed to the Administration of Picasso asking you to confirm the authorship of paintings. And then there was a scandal that reached Suda@

Earlier court electrician claimed that Picasso trusted him immensely and even called him "a little custom@ the court, However, as we see, did not take into account such arguments and sided Picasso heirs. All work will be returned to the Administration Picasso@

the Exact cost of the collection has not yet determined. In it, we recall, are the portraits of his wife Picasso Olga Khokhlova, 9 cubist collage, watercolor "blue period", gouache, about 30 200 lithographs and drawings. Work dated 1900-1932 years. Previously, in 2010, the newspaper was called the price of about 60 million euros for the whole congregation, of which 40 million of them in cubist collage@

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: bbc.com, artinvestment.ru