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Eight Matisse artworks were stolen from a Brazilian library, and authorities arrested a suspect after he was identified through the city’s extensive CCTV system (date noted as 8 Dec 2025).
Thieves breached the Magnani-Rocca Foundation outside Parma, Italy, in about three minutes, stealing three paintings—Renoir’s Les Poissons, Cézanne’s Still Life With Cherries, and Matisse’s Odalisque on the Terrace—worth roughly $10 million; a fourth work was abandoned after the security system interrupted the theft, and investigators say the heist appears to have been well planned as part of a structured operation.
Paintings by Renoir (Les Poissons, 1917), Cezanne (Tasse et plat de cerises, 1890), and Matisse (Odalisque sur la terrasse, 1922) were stolen from the Magnani Rocca Foundation near Parma, Italy in a three-minute raid overnight March 22–23; four hooded thieves forced a first-floor door, alarms sounded as they fled through the museum’s garden; the theft is described as planned and organized, with no arrests yet; the foundation’s works are globally loaned and the Carabinieri art squad are investigating.
Four masked thieves stole three paintings—Les Poissons by Renoir, Still Life with Cherries by Cézanne, and Odalisque on the Terrace by Matisse—from the Magnani Rocca Foundation near Parma. The three-minute raid was interrupted by alarms, and the burglars escaped over a fence.