US authorities have returned Thursday to France stolen Picasso painting, “The Dresser”, estimated at $ 15 million and painted by the Cubist master in 1911.
The canvas, reported stolen since 2001, there had been retouvée Nine months ago in a parcel sent by FedEx shipping company and registered as a craft work worth 37 dollars.
The director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Sarah Saldana, restored the canvas during a ceremony at the Embassy of France in Washington.
“The Dresser” had was exhibited in Munich in 1998 and was later returned to its owner, the national museum of modern art in Paris. The Institute declared the missing painting in its archives in 2001.
US Customs officers have found the table in a FedEx package sent from Belgium to Newark, New Jersey. The proper routing described the contents of the package as a work worth 30 euros (37 dollars).
Two experts from the Museum of Modern Art have confirmed the authenticity of the table in January.
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