The director of the Picasso Museum in Paris, Anne Baldassari has asked thieves to return the sketchbook stolen last week. Though initial reports indicated the display case was unlocked, it seems special tools were used to remove the book from the locked case. She tells Farah Nayeri of Bloomberg, “It’s an interesting notebook from a scholarly standpoint, as documentation . . . . On the market, it’s worth nothing, especially since it was stolen.” She noted that the book may be broken up, “The only people interested in this sketchbook are major museums: We recently bought a sketchbook ourselves, to prevent it from being destroyed and dismembered . . . . It allows us to preserve all evidence of the work of Picasso.”
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