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Proprietors of San Francisco Restaurant Say They Have Footage of Picasso Thief

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (AP).- The proprietors of a San Francisco restaurant said Wednesday they have surveillance footage of a sockless thief who snatched a valuable Picasso drawing off an art gallery wall. Lefty O’Doul’s released images showing a man walking on a sidewalk carrying a framed artwork under his arm. The restaurant is just a few doors down from the Weinstein Gallery, where police say a man stole a Picasso drawing late Tuesday morning before fleeing in a waiting taxi. Gallery President Rowland Weinstein told the San Francisco Chronicle that the piece, a 1965 pencil-on-paper drawing titled “Tete de Femme,” was purchased at auction this spring for $122,500 and had been part of a collection belonging to Picasso’s driver. The man in the video is dressed similarly to a police description of the suspect. Police say he was a well-dressed man in his 30s wearing a dark jacke