“Picasso” found under tree in Romania appears to be hoax

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Romanian novelist who thought she had found a painting by Pablo Picasso stolen from a museum in the Netherlands six years ago seems to have been the victim of a prank.
Mira Feticu said she found the picture — supposedly Picasso’s Tete d’Arlequin — under a tree based on an anonymous tip and handed it to the Dutch embassy.
Frank Westerman, a Dutch journalist who accompanied Feticu to Romania, wrote on Facebook that the pair had been hoodwin