The Federal police are looking for a lost mug from the workshop of Pablo Picasso. A 76-year-old man was transported to the expensive artwork on the train and Change there to forget. the Anna Ernst Anna Ernst
Anna Ernst (Born in 1989) writes for the Süddeutsche Zeitung to happen at the Newsdesk over the current days. Already in parallel to the study of history in Bochum, she has worked as a freelance journalist, including stations in the WAZ-research team and ZDFzoom. After the traineeship at the Funke media group in North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin, she worked as editor of the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in the spotlight-neighbourhood of Duisburg-Marxloh, before it went into the comparatively tranquil Baden-Württemberg to the Swabian newspaper. Privately, she is happy to be in the Kendo in the area, listens to Grunge music, or travels through the art museums.
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A train journey from Kassel to North Rhine-Westphalia for a 76-year-old man with a bitter loss. As the Federal police telling the man a large shopping bag on a train – is a ceramic jug by Pablo Picasso worth about 10 000 euros.
about 26 inches high mug is decorated with the motif of an owl. The Dispensing Opening is painted as a Beak. “Cruchon Hibou”, jug owl, the series to which it belongs, this vessel probably is. The pad is 500 PCs. All the jars come from the workshop of Pablo Picasso in the French Madoura.
the Federal police gave the elderly gentleman that it was an Original. In a large shopping bag out of a fixed box he was transported to the pitcher, as he drove on the last Friday of Kassel with a train in the direction of Düsseldorf. He was on the way home. The large bag with the blue Lettering “Neumeister – Ancient art – Modern” he put the train on the floor.
In the Westphalian town of Hamm, the older man had to change trains. Shortly after 21 o’clock, it was, as the train left the station – and have found 76-Year-old stunned, with him to be Picasso. “You can imagine how dissolved the man must have been, as he stood there dough on the train,” says Jürgen Gerdes, from the Federal police of Münster. The 76-Year-old have immediately asked for the rail to help. The train crew was notified and started searching – all to no avail, says the spokesman of the Federal police, who determined now due to embezzlement.
can Why the elderly gentleman was with the expensive artwork on the train on the way, Gerdes is but to SZ, not to say demand. “Maybe he wanted the pitcher to appreciate,” he estimates. The information given by the 76-Year-old doubt the police certainly don’t. “He was able to prove that to him the jug: He even had a picture that shows the pitcher at home in a showcase,” says the police spokesman.
Great hopes he may not make the man, but: “We have made it to the public, this is the best we can do at the Moment.” The Federal police now hope, therefore, that the pitcher there on the open market.
Christie’s auctioned a nearly identical-looking pitcher
auctions are Picasso ceramics frequently found. More than 3500 various Designs to have created Picasso for mugs, plates, tiles and other ceramics. The auction house Christie’s is currently auctioning even a pitcher, of the lost piece of deceptively similar. “The pitcher from our auction, but was made weeks ago – and is still safe in the warehouse,” says spokeswoman Alexandra Kindermann. It was not possible, however, that the pitcher on the image of the Federal police a copy of the same series, “Cruchon Hibou” – “if he is for real”.
For the pitcher of the Christie’s auction are currently more than 6200 euros. However, it is possible that the train lost a pitcher to be more valuable, says Kindermann. The price does not depend only of the condition of a work is, but also what number of a series of the pitcher. Early works, without injuries, so Christie take your veil off’s on the occasion of the ongoing Online auction, be significantly more expensive.