A Milwaukee landlord found a peculiar print hanging in a vacant apartment; it turned out to be an original Picasso

When an original Picasso disappeared from a Milwaukee gallery in 2018, owners wondered if they would ever see it again. But in August 2026, a man turned the art over to the police. Timothy Dertz noticed an intriguing artwork on the wall of his apartment after his tenant moved out. When he asked an antique dealer to take a look, the two men noticed a signature in green crayon: 'Picasso', reported Smithsonian Magazine.The artwork was a print of a bullfighter and a thick layer of dust had collected on the top of the frame. The landlord figured that the print must have been hanging in that spot for some time. “It was in a back bedroom behind a door,” Dertz told WISN-TV’s Stephen Cohn. “A very odd placement for such a piece of art.”When the two dug deeper, they realised that the artwork was a 1949 Pablo Picasso etching called Torero, Spanish for 'bullfighter'. It had been missing from Milwaukee's DeLind Fine Art Appraisals since February 2018. At the time of its disappearance, it was valued at $35,000 to $50,000.The “Torero” print, one of 30 of its kind, was originally commissioned for sale at a gallery owned by Bill DeLind, who told The Associated Press Friday that when police called h...