Still life that never moved: mystery of missing Picasso painting solved

<p>Artwork that vanished en route from Madrid to Granada seemingly never made it on to van in first place</p><p>Fittingly enough for a still life, it would appear that the small Picasso painting that triggered a police investigation <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/oct/16/spanish-police-investigate-as-picasso-painting-vanishes-on-way-to-exhibition">after apparently vanishing</a> while en route from Madrid to Granada for an exhibition earlier this month scarcely moved from its pickup point.</p><p>Officers from Spain’s Policía Nacional began searching for the gouache and pencil work <em>Naturaleza muerta con guitarra (</em>Still Life with Guitar) after it failed to arrive on a van that was bringing a consignment of loaned exhibits from the capital to the CajaGranada foundation on 3 October.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/oct/24/mystery-of-missing-picasso-still-life-painting-solved-spain">Continue reading...</a>