€3m Picasso painting stolen from workshop

A PABLO PICASSO painting valued at €3 million has apparently been stolen from a workshop belonging to the Pompidou Centre in Paris, French police say.

Nature Morte a la Charlotte, a small Cubist work completed in 1924, was last seen in a restoration studio at the workshop on January 12. It was found to be missing last Friday. “They have searched high and low, and now the Pompidou Centre thinks it must have been stolen,” a police officer said.

“That is certainly the theory we are working under.” A museum official said the painting was unsellable as it was too well-known.