In 1949, artist Pablo Picasso gifted a painting entitled Head of a Woman to the country of Greece. But in 2012, at the height of the debt crisis in Greece, paintings were stolen during a heist at the National Gallery.
The Picasso painting was one of them.
A 49-year-old man who has been described as a builder and decorator has now allegedly confessed to stealing the precious artwork.
According to The Sun, the man had been meticulously planning the daring theft for six months. He claimed he was an art lover and never intended to sell the paintings.
The suspect had the Picasso painting hidden at his home for years but only recently moved it to a riverbed outside Athens. He said he left the painting, wrapped in plastic, among the thick brush.
In the clip, the suspect leads police into the woods and points to a particular area of vegetation. Watch the discovery as it unfolds …
