Danielle recalled that her husband came home with a stuffed rubbish bag, and told her Picasso had given the works to him when tidying his studio.
Warhol himself gave the work to Cathy Naso, who as a teenager in the mid-1960s worked after school in his legendary Factory.
The whistleblower, Bunnatine Greenhouse, chief contracting officer for the Army Corps of Engineers, claims she was excluded from decision-making after raising doubts about whether to give the work to Halliburton.
In fact, Pentagon contracting officers complained that the company's prices were unreasonably high and initially said they could not justify giving the work to Mr. Sargeant.
But they are the representatives, and I give them work, that's the way I see it, the people give the work to the politicians.
He gave the work to his friend, the attorney C. A. Boon, telling him it was a genuine Vermeer, and asked him to show it to Dr. Abraham Bredius who was living nearby in Monaco.
Mrs. Cohen, who owns an art gallery in Manhattan, wanted to give the works to a Connecticut museum because her son, Fred Thaler, lives in Kent.
Mr. Arias gave the works to his hometown, which created the Museo Picasso: Colección Eugenio Arias (Plaza de Picasso 1; 34-91-868-0056; www.madrid.org/museo_picasso; free).
"The actual receivers of purchase orders have given the work orders to Smart Export Garment in a sneaky way without informing the buyer".
