The Picasso Museum victim of a funny theft

She simply took the work away, and then adapted it to her size... A 72-year-old lady, visiting the Picasso Museum, got her hands on the work

by artist Oriol Vilanova, which she slipped on her shoulders before shortening it once at home.

No cutter in the canvas, no, but a needle in the garment, because the work is a jacket, which visitors had the right to put on freely, and which the thief allowed herself to adjust to their measurements.

The story took place on March 8, as reported by

, and as confirmed by

the Picasso Museum at

Fifteen days later, the retiree, an art lover, returned to the museum, the air of nothing, and was arrested by the surveillance teams.

“The work could thus be partly found at the home of the thief”, explains the Picasso museum.

Apart from the new dimensions, a whole bunch of postcards that the artist had integrated into the pockets of said jacket were missing.

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