FRANKENLUST TWP, MI – Two valuable sketches by Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore that vanished from Delta College in August 1967 were recovered in January 1996, but the mystery of who took them remains unsolved.
The artworks disappeared from the college’s east concourse during a Summer Arts Festival, according to MLive/The Bay City Times archives. Both pieces were part of a traveling exhibit featuring 30 contemporary drawings from the University of Michigan collection.
The Picasso work, created in 1919 and titled “Sketches From a Window,” is a 12½- by 19¼-inch pen-and-ink drawing depicting 11 scenes of a street as viewed from inside a house. The Henry Moore piece, completed in 1928, is a 15¾- by 12-inch pen-and-wash sketch on white paper titled “Seated Figure” that shows a person turned toward the left and seated on a blocklike object…