A Picasso worth 25 million euros ($27.4 million) and considered a cultural treasure by Spanish authorities who had barred it from being exported was seized from a boat docked at Corsica, French authorities said Tuesday.
An attempt to export the painting, "Head of a Young Woman", to Switzerland on Thursday "drew the attention of French officials", the country's customs authority said in a statement, with customs agents on the French island boarding the vessel the following day.
The ship's captain could only present two documents regarding the work of art, the statement said -- one of which was a May 2015 Spanish court judgement labelling the painting a work of art and ordering that it not be taken out of the country.
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