the courts decided differently.
A RETIRED electrician and his wife who hid 271 unpublished works by Pablo Picasso in their garage for nearly 40 years have been found guilty of possessing stolen goods. The court in Grasse, on the French Riviera, handed Pierre and Danielle Le Guennec two-year suspended prison sentences.
Throughout the trial, Mr Le Guennec, 75, had insisted that Picasso's wife Jacqueline gave him a box containing the 271 works while he was working on their farmhouse in Mougins in 1971 or 1972. He said that she told him: “This is for you”. More in the Connexion.
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