The other day of the Paris Picasso Museum was stolen album with 32 drawings by the great Spanish artist. Estimated cost of exhibit - 8 million euro (about 11 million dollars). A member of the museum said that the drawings are insured for 125 million euros.

lost and found, on Tuesday around noon. According to police, the album could have been stolen during the period from Monday evening until Tuesday morning. Alarm did not work. No signs of hacking there.

According to the representatives of the French Ministry of Culture, the drawings were executed in the period from 1917 to 1924 ( «classic» period of Picasso's work). They were in an album of medium size, with the cover in red, on which golden letters removed Album. According to the police agent, specialized in the thefts of works of art, thieves may be obtained for the drawings, several million euros.

Picasso Museum is located in the Marais quarter of Paris. It was opened in 1985. In the museum collection - more than 3 000 of the artist, including more than 250 paintings. In summer or autumn the museum will close for reconstruction. The cost of renovation work is estimated at 20 million euros. It was expected that the museum re-opens its doors to the public in 2011. While in the museum building will be carried out repairs, mostly masterpieces from his collection will not have to perezhidat it «disaster» in reserves: they go on display at exhibitions around the world.

Pablo Picasso - author of the most expensive work, with or sold at auction . In 2004, Sotheby's auction for an unknown buyer for his picture overlaid «Boy with a pipe» much as 104 million dollars. In the past year, Picasso took the first line in the list of Top 10 artists on auction turnover . More recently Times newspaper put it in first place in the ranking of the most popular artists XX century .

Picasso works stolen quite often. In a database of missing works of art The Art Loss Register includes 710 of his creations, 93 of which were stolen last year. 2007-nd, however, was pobogache grand theft: in February of that year, a granddaughter, the artist Diana Vidmayer-Picasso (Diana Widmaier-Picasso) was stolen two paintings, estimated at 50 million euros. After several months of the Art Museum of Sao Paulo was pronounced «Portrait of Suzanne Bloch», whose value is 50 million dollars. Fortunately, the painting was able to arrest the kidnappers.

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova, AI

Source: news.bbc.co.uk , liberation.fr , lexpress.fr , news.smh.com.au , artinfo.com , artinvestment.ru