The Madrid police have planned to move to France to recover the table girl head , before July 31. Its owner was trying in vain to obtain permission to export the painting.
The Picasso case still is ongoing. Spanish civil guards have planned to move to France to recover it the Picasso painting seized July 31 on a yacht in Corsica, said Monday a police source. “They are taking steps to go,” said said a spokesman for the Civil Guard in Madrid, without giving further details.
Members of the police force would travel Tuesday or Wednesday, according to Spanish press. This painting by Pablo Picasso valued at over 25 million. It is considered a “national treasure” and is unexportable to the Spanish authorities. The painting has also been seized on July 31 on a boat off the coast of Corsica.
The owner of the work, the Spanish banker Jaime Botin, tried unsuccessfully since 2012 to obtain authorization to export the table titled Head of a Girl . The financier’s lawyers say the painting, bought in London in 1977, is British and that in fact, it is not subject to Spanish law. The work has also traveled to Corsica from Valencia, Spain, aboard the yacht Adix , flying the British flag.
Since 2012, Jaime Botin was trying to get permission to export his goods, but he had suffered a first refusal of the Ministry of Culture, confirmed in May by one of the highest Spanish courts. Spain considers that the picture – painted by Picasso in his period known Gosol. – Before it operates a shift to Cubism, is part of its national heritage
“There ‘ exist on Spanish territory similar work “this time, argued the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
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