5 Facts You Didn't Know About Pablo Picasso (Part 4)
In September 1998, Swissair Flight 111 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Nova Scotia, killing all 229 passengers on board. While the main and most obvious tragedy of the crash was the human lives lost at sea, there was something else that went down with the plane that was irreplaceable: one version of Picasso's 1963 painting, Le Peintre. The painting was in the cargo hold of the plane, being transported from one location to another. After the recovery effort was completed, some 98 percent of the aircraft was found and brought back to land. The only trace that remained of the artwork, however, was a 20-centimeter scrap of canvas found floating in the wreckage.
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