Thieves stole five pictures, including one by Spanish master Pablo Picasso, from the home in southern France of an art collector who was beaten up during the robbery, a police source said Saturday. The most important work in Friday's robbery was a lithograph representing a woman's face painted by Picasso, while the other works were by less renowned artists. The collector was hospitalized after being beaten by the thieves in Marseille. A lithograph is an authorised copy of an original work created by the artist himself or another skilled workman. According to the Art Loss Register, Picasso is the world's most stolen artist.
