This Tiny Picasso Painting Went Missing While Traveling to an Exhibition in Spain

A postcard-sized Pablo Picasso painting has gone missing in Spain. Titled Still Life With Guitar, the 1919 gouache artwork disappeared while being transported from Madrid to Granada for a temporary exhibition.

Still Life With Guitar was scheduled to be displayed in the CajaGranada Cultural Center’s exhibition, “Still Life: The Eternity of the Inert,” which opened on October 9. A week beforehand, a truck full of nearly 60 loaned artworks—supposedly including the Picasso piece—arrived at the center from Madrid. However, the paintings weren’t unboxed that day.

Nobody realized that Still Life With Guitar was missing until October 6, when organizers started unpacking the crates.

“As not all packages were properly numbered, it was not possible to carry out a thorough check without unpacking them,” says the foundation, per Reuters’ Romolo Tosiani.

The Picasso artwork depicts an abstract indoor scene of a guitar lying on a table. Measuring about five by four inches, it’s owned by a private collector and insured for a value of roughly $700,000.