PARIS: Two paintings by Pablo Picasso worth a total of 50 million euros and a drawing were stolen from the Paris apartment of the artist's granddaughter as she was sleeping, a lawyer and police said on Wednesday.

“Maya with Doll”, a painting of Picasso's daughter, and a portrait of his second wife Jacqueline were taken in the night of Monday to Tuesday from the flat of Diana Widmaier Picasso in an upmarket district of central Paris.

“The family is shocked by this theft,” said lawyer Paul Lombard, representing the Picasso family.

“They were especially attached to 'Maya with Doll'. It was of huge sentimental value to them.” Completed in 1938, the painting is one of Picasso's classic oil paintings done in bright shades of green, blue and red and depicting young Maya in pigtails cradling a doll dressed in a sailor suit.

According to Lombard, the paintings were on display in the apartment, in full view, but security precautions had been taken to protect the works.—AFP