Picasso’s 1971 "Tête d’Arlequijarlequin’s Head") which was stolen from Rotterdam's Kunsthal museum in 2012 (Getty)
A Pablo Picasso artwork that was stolen six years ago in a museum heist that was reportedly found buried in the ground in Romania appears to be nothing more than an elaborate hoax by a Belgian theater company.Two Dutch citizens had brought what they thought was Picasso’s 1971 "Tête d’Arlequin" ("Harlequin’s Head") painting to the Netherlands embassy in Romania, claiming that they found it buried, prompting authorities to try to authenticate the painting.
The painting was among the stolen artwork from Rotterdam’s Kunsthal museum in 2012 following a heist by a Romanian criminal gang in 2013.
But the piece of art appears to be a forgery by a Belgian theatre company that intentionally tricked a Dutch novelist, who wrote a book about the heist, into thinking he found the stolen artwork, BBC reported.
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