He steals a jacket from the museum, then takes it to the seamstress and shortens it: but it was a work of art

A theft that certainly did not go unnoticed by an elderly lady at the Picasso museum in Paris.

The woman, a 72-year-old retiree who would not be in full possession of her mental faculties, while visiting the museum and seeing a beautiful blue jacket hanging on a hook, thought about putting it in her bag and taking it home. Then, she left it to the seamstress, asking her to shorten it by about thirty centimeters because that jacket was really too long for her.

Too bad that it was a work of the Catalan artist Oriol Vilanova, exhibited as part of an ongoing retrospective. A work, “Old Masters”, which visitors are free to wear, and which has in their pockets a series of postcards to leaf through, which the author has collected in 15 years.

The alarm, during the theft, did not sound precisely because the work is, at the behest of its author, "manipulable" by the public, but the surveillance cameras have caught everything. And immortalized the lady who reached out to the hook and nonchalantly, after carefully folding “Old Masters”, put it in her bag and walked towards the exit.

The woman was then stopped when, after fifteen days, she returned to the museum. And accused of the theft she fell from the clouds. “I would never have allowed myself to steal a work of art”, his words. And then the return of the jacket, duly shortened according to the measurements of the new and somewhat "distracted" owner.

(Unioneonline / vl)