Stolen Picasso painting to go back on display in Greece after suspect arrested

A cubist female bust by the Spanish painter Picasso, left, and a 1905 representational oil painting of a riverside windmill by the Dutch painter Mondrian are displayed by police officers, in Athens during a press conference (Petros Giannakouris/AP)
A cubist female bust by the Spanish painter Picasso, left, and a 1905 representational oil painting of a riverside windmill by the Dutch painter Mondrian are displayed by police officers, in Athens during a press conference (Petros Giannakouris/AP)

A painting donated to Greece by Pablo Picasso will go back on display at the newly renovated National Gallery in Athens following its recovery more than nine years after it was stolen and the arrest of a 49-year-old construction worker as a suspect.

Authorities said Tuesday that Picasso’s Woman’s Head and a work by the Dutch master Piet Mondrian, Stammer Mill With Summer House, were stolen in January 2012 from the National Gallery in Athens.

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