An electrician approaches the Picasso estate to validate a number of Picasso's artworks, given to him, he said, when he worked for Picasso during the 1970's. The collection is already appraised at 80 million dollars, many of the works are completely unknown.
The family argues theft, that there's no way that Picasso would have given these paintings to an electrician. SO begins what will probably be a long and drawn out legal battle, but the point of it is there's a eighty million dollar cache of art that was previously unknown. Which raises the question, how many other hidden and unknown caches of art are out there?
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