Suspect points fingers in stolen Picasso case

? A suspect in last month’s brazen theft of two paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari told detectives the paintings were to be delivered to a Saudi collector, authorities said Friday.

Picasso’s “Portrait of Suzanne Bloch” and “O Lavrador de Cafe” by Portinari, an influential Brazilian artist, were stolen Dec. 20 from the Sao Paulo Museum of Art by three men who used a crowbar and car jack to force open one of the museum’s steel doors.

The framed paintings were found Jan 8., covered in plastic and leaning against a wall in a house on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, South America’s largest city.

Art experts estimate the value of the Picasso at about $50 million and the Portinari at $5 million to $6 million.