Greek Art Theft

A thief or thieves raided the Athens National Gallery in the small hours of this morning and cut four paintings from their frames: Woman's Head by Picasso, two paintings by Piet Mondrian and this Sketch of St Diego de Alcala by Guglielmo Caccia. It seems there was only one security guard on duty who was distracted by various alarms going off. He caught sight of a person running from the building and gave chase, causing the thief to drop a Mondrian landscape. The BBC News item is somewhat garbled. It appears that two Mondrian paintings were taken and one dropped. The Picasso is a ghastly cubist daub, but worth big money (title link). The Caccia sketch is irreplaceable.