Pierre Le Guennec an electrician who worked on three of Picasso’s properties in southern France has just gifted the art world with one of the greatest stashes in history, 271 unknown works of art by Picasso he had in a trunk in his garage. The heirs of Picasso claim theft, but really who cares? Art lovers world wide can rejoice at the find. The heirs have filed suit for illegal possession of the art which is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
There is a staggering variety of lithographs, cubist paintings, notebooks, sketches and a watercolor that were created between 1900 and 1932 during an especially creative period after Picasso moved from Barcelona to Paris. Le Guennec states that Picasso’s second wife, Jacqueline Roque, gave him a trunk full of art. Wow, a gift? The heirs say no way, but perhaps Roque didn’t even know the art was in the trunk. Le Guennec did says it was a gift.
Would a thief leave a trunk of Picasso’s art work in his garage? Honestly, this is an electrician, no offense, not an art thief. Rather, a true hero. That trunk could have gotten tossed out unceremoniously. Le Guennec contacted Picasso’s son Claude to see if they were authentic and worth anything, because he really had no idea. Only to be treated as a common thief and taken to court. Le Guennec and his wife weren’t trying to sell them, they were clearing up their affairs because Le Guennec has cancer. And even if they did want to sell them, they went to the Picasso’s son first, Jesus, Claude, cut the man some slack.
In an interview that Pierre Le Guennec gave to France-2 TV, gesturing with his hands as if he were holding a basketball, La Guennac said, “It was a small pack like this, it was little drawings, little odds and ends, little pieces of paper. It could have gone in the trash.”
Aren’t we glad it didn’t go in the trash, honestly, modest living Pierre Le Guennec and his wife deserve a boat load of cash to live out their lives for giving us all a tremendous gift of surprise Picasso’s to enjoy and study.
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