Feticu was duped into thinking she had found the Picasso painting. Several days after receiving a letter with instructions on how to recover it, she dug up the painting in a Romanian forest.

However, two Belgian directors admitted that they had tricked the writer as part of a project called True Copy, inspired by Dutch forger Geert Jan Jansen, and the painting was merely a good fake. The location of the missing paintings remains a mystery to this day.

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