But the stolen Picasso remained off the radar — until earlier this month, when two men knocked at the Amsterdam apartment of respected art historian Arthur Brand. No’ and they think that there are rich collectors who would like to buy a stolen painting. “What I do with my company is we advise collectors to prevent them from buying forgeries,” Brand told the Independent. According to AFP, Brand first heard about the stolen Picasso floating through underground art channels in 2015. But before that, on the night he received the stolen art, Brand could not help taking a kind of victory lap.

Source: National Post March 27, 2019 14:48 UTC