Stolen Picasso portrait of Dora Maar found after 20 years
A Dutchman known as the "Indiana Jones of the art world" has found a Picasso painting that was stolen 20 years ago.
Arthur Brand says the portrait was circulated in the Dutch criminal underworld for years after it was taken from a Saudi sheikh's yacht in 1999.
Buste de Femme (Dora Maar) was first painted in 1938, and is now thought to be worth €25m (£21m; $28m).
Dora Maar was Pablo Picasso's lover and muse for seven years. The painting hung in his home until his death in 1973.
Mr Brand hit headlines last year after tracking down a Byzantine mosaic of Saint Mark. It had been taken from a church in Cyprus in the 1970s.
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