- SAN FRANCISCO: The proprietors of a San Francisco restaurant say they have surveillance footage of a sockless thief who snatched a valuable Picasso drawing off an art gallery wall.
Lefty O'Doul's released images Wednesday showing a man walking on a sidewalk carrying a framed artwork under his arm. The restaurant is just a few doors down from the Weinstein Gallery, where police say a man stole a Picasso drawing worth hundreds of thousands of dollars late Tuesday morning before fleeing in a waiting taxi.
The gallery says the piece was a 1965 pencil-on-paper drawing titled “Tete de Femme.” The man in the video is dressed similarly to a police description of the suspect. Police say he was a well-dressed man in his 30s wearing a dark jacket and pants, large dark glasses and loafers with no socks.
