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By Christobel Rotten and Simon Clarke
August 3, 2021 3.48pm
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Picasso ransom demand refused
The State Government last night refused to meet the ransom demands of a group claiming to have stolen the National Gallery of Victoria’s most valuable painting, a $A1.6 million Picasso.
NGV director Patrick McCaughey speaks to media after the theft of Picasso’s Weeping Woman was discovered.
Credit:Bruce Postle
The theft of ‘Weeping Woman’ was discovered yesterday. A group calling itself the Australian Cultural Terrorists claimed responsibility for the theft, and said in a ransom note that the painting would be destroyed if the group’s demands were not met in seven days.