Berlin, and Picasso's Lady without hat, blue portrait was acquired by Mechthild Princess Lichnowsky, who kept it at her private collection in London. From the English capital, the painting went to Lugano, in Switzerland, where it was held in the private collection of the Biber family. The painting remained on deposit at the National Gallery of Art, in Washington between 1942 and 1946. In the following year, it was acquired by the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP), with financial resources donated by Walter Moreira Salles, founder of Unibanco. Theft On 20 December 2007, the painting was stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art. Around five o'clock in the morning, three men invaded the museum and took away Picasso's Portrait of Suzanne Bloch and Portinari's O lavrador de café from the museum collection. The whole action took about three minutes. The estimated value of the works was US$55 million, with the portrait alone valued at US$50 million. The paintings, which are listed as Brazilian National Heritage by IPHAN, remained missing until 8 January 2008, when they were recovered in Ferraz de Vasconcelos by the Police of São Paulo. The paintings were returned, undamaged, to the São Paulo Museum of Art. Exhibitions The painting was exhibited at the Thannhauser Gallery in Berlin (1913); at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires (1939); at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco (1940); at the famous exhibition From Cézanne to Picasso, in Los Angeles (1941); at the exhibition A Nova Pintura Francesa, in Rio de Janeiro (1949); at the Museu Picasso in Barcelona and at the Kunstmuseum in Berne, both in 1992; and at the Picasso retrospective, at the Musée Picasso, in Paris, carried out in 1994. See also Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto The Actor Woman Ironing Notes References Camesasca, Ettore. Da Raffaello a Goya... da Van Gogh a Picasso – 50 dipinti dal Museu de Arte di San Paolo del Brasile (exhibition catalogue). Milan: 1987 Chevalier, D. (1991). Picasso, the blue and rose periods. Crown art library. New York: Crown. Marques, Luiz (org). Catálogo do Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand: arte francesa e Escola de Paris.” São Paulo: Prêmio, 1998 Palau i Fabre, J., & Picasso, P. (1981). Picasso, the early years, 1881–1907. New York: Rizzoli. External links Museum-security article about the theft Yahoo! News UK article about the theft Article