While the rest of the world was partying it up in Miami this past Thursday, someone swiped a Picasso artwork worth nearly $90,000 from a booth inside Art Miami. The stolen piece disappeared sometime Thursday night or early Friday morning.
David Smith, owner of the Netherlands-based Leslie Smith Gallery, explained to the Miami Herald that he arrived Friday 10:45 a.m. to his booth at Art Miami, a satellite fair near Art Basel, where the piece was nowhere to be found.
"I’ve been doing art shows all my life ... I’ve never, ever had anything stolen, ” said Smith, who reported the burglary to Miami police.
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While the rest of the world was partying it up in Miami this past Thursday, someone swiped a Picasso artwork worth nearly $90,000 from a booth inside Art Miami. The stolen piece disappeared sometime Thursday night or early Friday morning.
David Smith, owner of the Netherlands-based Leslie Smith Gallery, explained to the Miami Herald that he arrived Friday 10:45 a.m. to his booth at Art Miami, a satellite fair near Art Basel, where the piece was nowhere to be found.
"I’ve been doing art shows all my life ... I’ve never, ever had anything stolen, ” said Smith, who reported the burglary to Miami police.