day after loud robbery Paris Museum of Modern Art in France, there was another grand theft. In Marseille, the thieves climbed into the house of a collector, beat him and took five works, the most valuable of which is a Picasso lithograph depicting a woman's face. The Collector was taken to hospital. On the value of the stolen pieces he has not been revealed.

As to exhibits stolen May 20 from the Paris museum, they are estimated to be 90-100 million euros. The perpetrator, act alone, possessed paintings by Picasso ("Pigeon with peas) and Matisse (" Pastoral "), marriage (" Oliva near Estaka "), Modigliani (" Woman with a Fan ") and Léger (" Still Life with a candlestick ") . Work is already listed in the Interpol database. As the representative of the organization, Jean-Michel Louboutin (Jean-Michel Louboutin), a burglar is unlikely to try to sell the paintings: they are too well known. Perhaps with the theft are criminal groups who plan to extort money with paintings from the museum or the state. It is not excluded also that the cloth could be exchanged for drugs or weapons.

Mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoe (BertrandDelanoë) acknowledged that the Museum of Modern Art worked poorly alarm. Faults became known in late March, since that time the museum had waited till the alarm repaired.

According to the company TheArtLossRegister, possesses the most complete worldwide database of missing works of art, Picasso was the most "popular "artist thieves. Creation of the great Spaniard was among the works stolen last January at a private villa in Marseilles. Incidentally, a few days before one of the city museum was kidnapped drawing by Edgar Degas.

material prepared Julia Maksimova, AI

Sources: news.bbc.co . uk , reuters.com , artinvestment.ru