{"id":112183,"date":"2026-08-16T15:50:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T15:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/italian-police-recover-stolen-renoir-cezanne-and-matisse-works-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T15:50:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T15:50:58","slug":"italian-police-recover-stolen-renoir-cezanne-and-matisse-works-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/italian-police-recover-stolen-renoir-cezanne-and-matisse-works-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian police recover stolen Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse works | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse worth over $10.4 million which were stolen from an Italian museum in March have been recovered, police said Friday.<\/p>\n

The paintings were taken by thieves from the villa of the Magnani-Rocca Foundation, near Parma in northern Italy, in a heist that lasted under three minutes.<\/p>\n

Parma chief of police Andrea Pagliaro told AFP <\/em>the investigation centred around a gang of nine Moldavian suspects. Five are accused of carrying out the theft, he said.<\/p>\n

Video footage released by police showed two thieves wearing headlamps and with their faces covered entering the villa by breaking through a window.<\/p>\n

They headed straight into a room where the three paintings hung and took them off the wall, before heading back to the window and passing them through to an accomplice waiting outside.<\/p>\n

They made off with Fish<\/em> by Auguste Renoir, Still Life with Cherries<\/em>\u00a0by Paul Cezanne, and Odalisque on the Terrace<\/em>\u00a0by Henri Matisse.<\/p>\n

The Renoir is worth three million euros ($3.5 million), the Cezanne six million euros and the Matisse some 20,000 euros, police said.<\/p>\n

The paintings were recovered at the house of one of the suspects, police chief Pagliaro told AFP<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Magnani-Rocca Foundation – 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Parma – houses the collection of art historian Luigi Magnani, which also includes works by Durer, Rubens, Van Dyck, Goya and Monet.<\/p>\n

The theft is the latest in a series of robberies targeting European museums.<\/p>\n

Last October, thieves broke into the Louvre in Paris in broad daylight, escaping in less than eight minutes with jewellery worth $102 million.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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