A tiny painting by Pablo Picasso — which measures only five-by-four inches but is worth nearly three quarters of a half million dollars — remains missing after it disappeared earlier this month while in transit from a Madrid museum.

The piece was part of artworks compiled from private collectors and meant for exhibition “Still Life: The Eternity of the Inanimate” at a museum in Granada, some 260 miles south of the country’s capital, according to news reports.

A van carrying dozens of those painting, including the Picasso piece, arrived at the CajaGranada Cultural Center after its four-hour trip on Friday, October 3. But when museum staff opened the crates the following Monday, the Picasso work was not to be found.

The small painting pictures an abstract indoor scene of a guitar lying

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