--Posted By johannes to <http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/08/that-picasso-recovered-in-iraq-fake.htm>monochrom at 8/31/2009 02:13:00 PM
Officers had said that the painting was stolen during Iraqi dictator
Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, but a source at the
museum in the emirate said they had never housed such a work. "The
National Museum had no Picasso paintings before the Iraqi invasion,"
the official said on condition of anonymity. A tag on the back of the
painting, one riddled with misspellings, names the work "The nakede"
(sic) and says it was "sold by the louvre to the musum" (sic) of
Kuwait 1979, with the words Louvre and Kuwait in lower case.
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