Stolen Picasso masterpiece of Maar unearthed by 'Indiana Jones of art'

THE HAGUE - A Dutch art detective dubbed the "Indiana Jones of the art world" has struck again, finding a Picasso painting worth $28 million stolen in 1999 from a Saudi sheikh's yacht on the French Riviera.

Arthur Brand said he had handed back the 1938 masterpiece entitled Portrait of Dora Maar, also known as Buste de Femme (Dora Maar) to an insurance company earlier this month.

The discovery of the rare portrait of Maar, one of Pablo Picasso's most influential mistresses, is the culmination of a four-year investigation into the burglary on the luxury yacht Coral Island, as she lay anchored off Antibes, France.