Man Charged for Allegedly Damaging $26 Million Picasso Painting – TMZ

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Forget “Scent of a Lady” … one man allegedly needed to web his arms on Picasso‘s costly Bust of a Lady, for which he became arrested and has now been charged. Hoo-ah!

20-year-used Shakeel Ryan Massey became arrested this weekend for antagonistic the 1944 oil painting on conceal on the Tate Licensed gallery in London … valued at $26 million. It depicts French photog Dora Maar — PP’s used muse — moreover all dice-y and abstract-handle.

Basically based on the BBC, the man allegedly “attacked” the painting and left it ripped by some potential. A Tate spokesman says the art work is being assessed by their conservation team, and the gallery remains commence. In other phrases, the painting — a Picasso genuine — is in surgical scheme.

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As for this young fella, he’s reportedly been charged with prison hassle and regarded in courtroom this week … entirely to be urged he’d be held in custody except a pre-trial hearing on the give up of January. He is evidently already indicated he plans to fight the payment.

The painting is of alternative noteworthy cost moreover being done by the famed painter — it be talked about to bear been created in Paris all the strategy by the final months of Nazi occupation.

Our query … what’s security handle at this joint, and how straightforward is it to jump a rope and web a withhold of a painting worth this grand cash??? Easy adequate, allegedly.