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I found something of a similar nature on Listverse today:

Art historian Diana Widmaier Picasso is the daughter of Picasso’s daughter Maya. In her Paris apartment hung a portrait of her mother, Maya with Doll, painted by her famous grandfather.

In February 2007, as Diana and a friend slept, bold thieves broke in. They swiped the portrait of Maya, a drawing, and a portrait of Picasso’s second wife, Jacqueline. They cut out Portrait of Jacqueline and lifted Maya with Doll, frame and all. They escaped without leaving a trace of evidence.

The theft was thought to be ordered by a wealthy private collector because the two paintings are estimated to be worth more than $66 million dollars at auction. But police had no idea how the thieves got in, why the alarm system hadn’t sounded, or how thieves knew exactly where the paintings were in Diana’s apartment. They had no leads, until a suspicious dealer called in a tip that August. Police tailed three men for over a month and caught them trying to sell the stolen art.

As bad as the theft may have been, Diana wasn’t the first Picasso granddaughter to be robbed. Marina Picasso’s villa in Cannes, France was burglarized in November 1989. Thieves stole more than $17 million worth of art that night, including seven Picasso paintings. Here, too, the alarm didn’t work, and five guard dogs made no sound.