Picasso drawings stolen in Paris!

The Pablo Picasso theft was discovered on Tuesday

A sketchbook of 33 drawings by Pablo Picasso worth about 8m euros ($11m; £6.8m) has been stolen from a museum in Paris, police have said.

The theft from the Picasso Museum was discovered on Tuesday afternoon but the exact time and circumstances have yet to be determined.

A special unit of the interior ministry, the BRB, has taken over handling of the case.

Picasso is regarded by many as the greatest artist of the 20th Century.

The Picasso museum, housed in the 17th century Hotel Sale building in the Marais quarter in central Paris, is set to close this summer for at least two years for renovation work put at 20m euros.

The museum contains more than 250 paintings and 1,500 drawings by the Spanish artist.

Last month Picasso's portrait of a musketeer smoking a pipe sold for $14.6m in New York. Another painting, A Woman with a Hat, fetched $7.7m at the sale.

BBC NEWS REPORT.