Stolen Picasso etching returned to Milwaukee police 8 years later

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — An original 1949 Pablo Picasso etching is back in safe hands, eight years after it was stolen from a Milwaukee art appraiser.

Milwaukee police said a person walked into a police station Wednesday with the piece. On Thursday, an authenticator confirmed it was the stolen artwork.

The plot is like something out of a movie: In 2018, an unknown person walked out of an art gallery with an expensive piece of artwork from one of the world’s most famous artists.

Few people expected to ever see it again…

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