U.S. seizes Picasso stolen from Paris museum

U.S. authorities seized a stolen Picasso painting at the Port of Newark, and it will be returned to its home at France's National Museum.

U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch filed papers to forfeit the cubist painting, "La Coiffeuse," which was taken from a storage unit at the Centre Georges Pompidou in 2001.

The painting was shipped to the U.S. via Federal Express from Belgium in December, and it was on its way to a climate-controlled storage facility in Queens. The original shipment had described its contents as a $37 "art craft."

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"A lost painting has been found," Lynch said in a statement. The sender and recipient have not been publicly identified.