Stolen Matisse works tied to book thief in Brazil
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By December 2025, eight works by French painter Henri Matisse had been stolen from a library in Sao Paolo, Brazil. They have just been recovered by the police in the hands of an armed receiver "who kept them for the perpetrator of the crime", according to the police.
Stolen Matisse works tied to book thief in Brazil
Phone logs of a notorious art and rare-book thief in Brazil proved to be the key for police to recover eight stolen engravings by famed French painter Henri Matisse after they were pilfered from a library exhibition in Sao Paulo in December last year.The pieces from Matisse’s 1947 art book Jazz, val
At the end of 2025, two thieves overwhelmed an overseer and a visitor couple in a library and fled through the main entrance with the artworks.
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