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Another Big Find for the 'Indiana Jones of the Art World'

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It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood movie, so it’s only fitting the mystery was solved by a man who’s been given a Hollywood-like nickname:
(Newser)

It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood movie, so it’s only fitting the mystery was solved by a man who’s been given a Hollywood-like nickname: « the Indiana Jones of the art world. » That would be Arthur Brand, the man who managed to track down a Picasso that’s been missing for two decades. « Buste de Femme (Dora Maar) » was painted by the artist in 1938 and in his possession until his death 35 years later. A billionaire Saudi sheik acquired the painting of Picasso’s one-time lover and kept it in his yacht, where it was stolen in France in 1999.

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