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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/50m-picasso-treasure-trove-found.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Pablo Picasso's Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto. A 'treasure trove' of the artist's works have been discovered in France" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-50m-picasso-treasure-trove-found.jpg" alt="Pablo Picasso's Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto. A 'treasure trove' of the artist's works have been discovered in France"/></a></p>
<p>A French couple have come forward with 271 previously unknown works by Picasso &#8211; a staggering trove worth at least £50 million.</p>
<p>Picasso Administration lawyer Jean-Jacques Neuer said the retired French electrician and his wife showed many of the works to Picasso&#8217;s son Claude and other estate administrators in September.</p>
<p>Mr Neuer said the administrators believe the works are authentic.</p>
<p>It is unclear how the man &#8211; who worked for Picasso in the 1970s &#8211; came by the pictures. The estate administrators have taken legal action for alleged illegal receipt of the works.</p>
<p>The couple kept the works in their garage for years.</p>
<p>The cache, dating from the artist&#8217;s most creative period from 1900 to 1932, includes lithographs, portraits, watercolours and sketches &#8211; plus nine Cubist collages said to be worth £30 million alone.</p>
<p>Police investigators are looking into how the couple came by the pictures. They said they were given the works by Picasso and his wife Jacqueline.</p>
<p>Claude Picasso told French newspaper Liberation that his father was known for his generosity &#8211; but that he always dedicated, dated and signed his gifts as he knew that some recipients might try to sell the works one day.</p>
<p>&#8220;To give away such a large quantity, that&#8217;s unheard of. It doesn&#8217;t hold water,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This was part of his life.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Neuer said: &#8220;Claude Picasso was astounded. He couldn&#8217;t believe his eyes. Just about everybody has felt that way&#8230; when you have 271 Picasso works that were never seen, never inventoried &#8211; that&#8217;s just unprecedented.&#8221;</p>
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