Picasso Pencil Sketch Worth $ 200,000 Stolen

Pencil sketch famous painter Pablo Picasso worth hundreds of thousands of dollars stolen from the exhibition in San Francisco, USA. Performed in daylight theft, the thief strolled freely and fled in a taxi.

Reporting from the CNN page, Wednesday, July 6, 2011, the theft occurred on Tuesday. Action theft was recorded on surveillance cameras. A bespectacled black man took a sketch titled Picasso Tête de Femme (woman's head) from the wall. Undetected security officer, this man right out and take a taxi.

Although only a rough drawing created using pencil, sketch it for U.S. $ 200,000 on the market. Picasso gave the painting free of charge to his personal driver.

Historian at the International Arts Foundation, Sharon Flescher, said the painting would be difficult to sell in the market. Even if sold, the buyers were art collectors who received the illegal booty.

"True collectors will not touch the painting," Flescher said.

Gallery owner where the painting was on display, Rowland Weinstein, is also aware of this. He was worried that the thief would waste the valuable painting if the painting is not sold out. "My biggest fear, that person will be aware of the painting can not be sold, and throw it in a way not honorable," said Weinstein.