A silver plate designed by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and valued at $US85,000 ($A92,000) has been stolen during an art exhibition in Miami.
David Smith, owner of the Amsterdam-based Leslie Smith gallery, told the Miami Herald that the stolen work, created by Picasso in 1956, is titled Visage aux Mains (Face with Hands) and was being displayed at Art Miami in Midtown, the main satellite fair of the Art Basel in Miami Beach show.
He noticed on Friday that the plate, which is engraved with a smiling face and stick-finger hands, was no longer on the wall where it had been hanging the day before.
"I've been doing art shows all my life ... (but) I've never, ever had anything stolen."
Art Miami is one of numerous parallel exhibitions that are organised in conjunction with Art Basel, a four-day event that is held at the Miami Beach Convention Centre and draws tens of thousands of people to the city every year.
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