ROME: Italian police have recovered three work by French masters Paul Cezanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri Matisse that had been stolen from a museum close to the northern metropolis of Parma in March, officers stated on Friday (Aug 14).
Carabinieri officers from Italy’s cultural heritage safety unit recovered the works after what police described as a fancy investigation. Extra info was as a result of be launched later within the day.
The work had been taken from the Fondazione Magnani Rocca museum in Mamiano di Traversetolo, close to Parma, in the course of the evening of Mar 22 to Mar 23. Artwork specialists stated their estimated worth exceeded €9 million (US$10.4 million).
The recovered works are Cezanne’s Tasse et Plat de Cerises (Cup and Plate of Cherries), Renoir’s Les Poissons (The Fish) and Matisse’s Odalisque sur la Terrasse (Odalisque on the Terrace).
