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Picassos recovered

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“Maya and the Doll”, a 1938 oil on canvass by artist Pablo Picasso is seen in this photo.

Paris: Two men arrested for stealing Picasso masterpieces from the Paris flat of the artist’s granddaughter, were on the verge of striking a deal to sell the works, police said on Wednesday. Two paintings and a drawing by the Spanish master Pablo Picasso, together worth more than $66 million, were taken from the Left Bank apartment of Diana Widmaier-Picasso as she lay sleeping on February 26. The thieves made off with the 1961 “Portrait of Jacqueline”, depicting Picasso’s second wife and “Maya with Doll”, a painting of the artist’s daughter from 1938. The stolen drawing was called “Marie-Therese at age 21”. — AP

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