Police Recover Picasso’s ‘Little Guitar’ Toy Sculpture Made for Paloma Picasso

Little Guitar, a toy sculpture made by Pablo Picasso for his youngest child, Paloma, is heading for a museum after police recovered it from the home of a Roman businessman.

Carabinieri police say Picasso had given the toy to his friend, Italian artist Giuseppe Vittorio Parisi.

Parisi commissioned a glass showcase to be built for the sculpture so it could be exhibited at the museum on Lake Maggiore in the Italian Alps.

The work was never returned to Parisi. Following his death in January, his widow told police that it was still with the Roman businessman who had been hired to build the display case.

The businessman has been charged with fraud, Carabinieri Capt. Gabriele De Pascalis told The Associated Press.

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