Pierre Le Guennec

Pierre Le Guennec (born 1939) is a retired French electrician who announced, in 2010, that he was in possession of 271 undocumented, never before seen works by Pablo Picasso that were estimated to be worth at least 60 million euros (about US$80 million).

Le Guennec, who had worked for Picasso installing burglar alarms in the early 1970s, Police questioned Le Guennec and confiscated the works. He has not been charged with a crime but a judge will rule whether he can get the artworks back.

The works date from 1900 to 1932 and "include lithographs, portraits, watercolors and sketches -- plus nine Cubist collages."

In 2015 Pierre Le Guennec was found guilty by a French court of possessing stolen works by Picasso. On the March 1st 2018 the Court of Cassation invalidated the judgment.