It's a story straight out of Antiques Roadshow. The Evansville Museum recently discovered that a work of art sitting in storage for nearly half a century was a rare and valuable work created by Picasso.
It won't be here long, however.
The cost of caring for such a piece is too great for an institution with a limited budget and the board of trustees on Monday decided to sell it through a New York auction house. The board’s action was approved by the museum’s members at a meeting held Tuesday. The trustees voted to sell the piece through Guernsey's, a New York auction company that was trying to track it down.
