Picasso Went on Trial for Stealing the “Mona Lisa”
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The true burglar masterly covered the traces.
Not one mysterious story is tied to Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”, the painting that draws an unforgettable impression on all viewers. On August 21, 1911, the masterpiece gets stolen from the gallery and can be lost forever.
August 29, 1911, a man named Joseph Gery Pieret reveals to Paris Journal: Picasso and his friend, avant-garde poet Apollinaire, are in possession of Iberian sculptures, another item missing from Louver.
This fact makes Picasso one of the top suspects in the theft of Leonardo’s creation. As it later turns out, Pieret is the one to have stolen the statues and sold them to the artist. Picasso hands over his illegal acquisition to Paris Journal, but both he and Apollinaire go to court regarding the “Mona Lisa”. With no evidence found, they are released.
Two years later, police discovered the painting had been stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian artist working at the Louver.