The old Roman asserts that picture 36 years ago, he gave one of his clients. The owner tried to obtain a license for the export of cloth. The police finds out whether he is the legal owner of the work

the Italian carabinieri seized from an elderly Roman, framery masters, a painting by Pablo Picasso worth 15 million euros. Cubist painting of 1912 "Violin and a bottle of beer bass", according to the owner, was presented to him in 1978, one of the customers. Some elderly client was allegedly handed over to master this picture in gratitude for the free restoration valuable frame for the portrait of his late wife. Further, according to the laws of the genre, framing the master dogadyvalsya that it's a real Picasso, hid work into the far corner for 36 years. The picture has been neglected and "without due care" until the moment when the pensioner "accidentally" found out that this is the work of the great Spanish master@

Owner tried to get permission to export jobs abroad for the purpose of selling at auction. Then the Italian carabinieri engaged in tracing stolen cultural property, felt something was wrong and confiscated. What picture is authentic, has been proved. Now the police are looking into whether the Roman pensioner its legitimate sobstvennikom@

Parallel with the case of Picasso, the police are investigating the case of Roman marble sculpture, found in the truck for transportation of flowers. It turned out that the statue of the deity (presumably God Mithra) was stolen black archeologists from the excavation site of an Etruscan burial grounds North of Rome. Criminals smuggling was going to take out the sculpture in Switzerland and sell on the black Rinke@

Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: ansa.it, reuters.com, artinvestment.ru