Italian police have announced that they have recovered three stolen artworks from the Fondazione Magnani Rocca near Parma, Italy. The recovered paintings are by Paul Cezanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri Matisse, worth in excess of $10.4 million collectively.
The paintings—Cézanne’s Still Life with Cherries (1890), Renoir’s late-career Les Poissons (1917) and Matisse’s Odalisque on the Terrace (1922)—were stolen from the “Villa of Masterpieces” in March. A report by the BBC noted that Les Poissons, an oil on canvas, is valued at around €6 million ($6.9 million).
The Cultural Heritage Protection Unit of the Carabinieri found the works in an apartment in Parma, Italy; nine Moldovan nationals have since been placed under investigation.
The paintings were stolen during a three-minute robbery where two thieves entered through a window and grabbed the works off the wall. The Fondazione Magnani Rocca houses the collection of Italian critic Luigi Magnani, who established the foundation in 1977 before his death in 1984. His collection includes works by Titian, Dürer, Rubens, Goya, Canova and de Chirico.







