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The Brazilian Police arrested this Monday one of the alleged perpetrators of the theft of thirteen works of art by Henri Matisse and Cândido Portinari, committed on Sunday at the Mário de Andrade Municipal Library in São Paulo.
The name of the detainee was not disclosed by the São Paulo Civil Police, although the local press identified him as Felipe dos Santos Fernandes Quadra31 years old, who has a record of robbery, theft and drug trafficking.
The security forces managed to apprehend the van that was used for the escape after the robbery and reported that they are still working to arrest second suspectalready identified, and recover the paintings.
The day before, the two thieves entered the library armed, overpowered a security agent and two visitors who were at the exhibition at that time, stole the thirteen works and They fled through the front door. The theft occurred on the last day of the exhibition and during a time when attendance at the library was low.
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The escape of the assailants was captured by the security system cameras urban area of the São Paulo Mayor’s Office, which was crucial for the identification of the vehicle used.
The works were part of the exhibition ‘From the book to the museum: MAM São Paulo and the Mário de Andrade Library’which brings together modernist prints, watercolors and clippings from the 1940s and 1950s, from the collections of the Museum of Art (MAM) of São Paulo and the collection of the library itself.
The stolen pieces include paper cuttings from the collection ‘Jazz’created by Matisse in the 1940s with colored papers, and etchings by Portinari, one of the main plastic artists from Brazil.
The Brazilian Police arrested this Monday one of the alleged perpetrators of the theft of thirteen works of art by Henri Matisse and Cândido Portinari, committed on Sunday at the Mário de Andrade Municipal Library in São Paulo.
The name of the detainee was not disclosed by the São Paulo Civil Police, although the local press identified him as Felipe dos Santos Fernandes Quadra31 years old, who has a record of robbery, theft and drug trafficking.
The security forces managed to apprehend the van that was used for the escape after the robbery and reported that they are still working to arrest second suspectalready identified, and recover the paintings.
The day before, the two thieves entered the library armed, overpowered a security agent and two visitors who were at the exhibition at that time, stole the thirteen works and They fled through the front door. The theft occurred on the last day of the exhibition and during a time when attendance at the library was low.
