{"id":813480,"date":"2026-08-14T15:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/813480\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T15:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:18:10","slug":"italian-police-recover-stolen-renoir-cezanne-and-matisse-artworks-worth-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/813480\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian police recover stolen Renoir, C\u00e9zanne and Matisse artworks worth millions"},"content":{"rendered":"

MILAN (AP) \u2014 Italian authorities recovered three artworks by Renoir, C\u00e9zanne and Matisse worth millions of euros that were stolen<\/a> earlier this year from a private museum near the northern city of Parma, police said Friday.<\/p>\n

A statement from the Italian Carabinieri\u2019s art recovery squad said the artworks were discovered during searches ordered by prosecutors, but no details were given. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n

The three recovered artworks are \u201cFish,\u201d a painting by Auguste Renoir, \u201cStill Life with Cherries,\u201d a pencil and watercolor by Paul C\u00e9zanne, and \u201cOdalisque on the Terrace,\u201d a color aquatint by Henri Matisse. Authorities said the C\u00e9zanne was valued at 6 million euros ($7 million), the Renoir at 3 million euros ($3.5 million), and the Matisse at 20,000 euros ($23,000).<\/p>\n

The heist at the Magnani Rocca Foundation, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Parma, took place on the night of March 22-23, with thieves forcing open the entrance door, police said.<\/p>\n

Local media reported that the thieves took the paintings in less than three minutes and escaped across the museum gardens.<\/p>\n

Established in 1977, the foundation hosts the collection of art historian Luigi Magnani and includes works by D\u00fcrer, Rubens, Van Dyck, Goya and Monet.<\/p>\n

The museum believes a structured and organized gang was responsible for the theft, which the alarm interrupted, local media reported.<\/p>\n

The crime followed a series of high-profile heists at major European museums, including the theft in October of French crown jewels<\/a> and other items valued at 88 million euros ($101 million) from the Louvre in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN (AP) \u2014 Italian authorities recovered three artworks by Renoir, C\u00e9zanne and Matisse worth millions of euros that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,793,134716,6801,4381,246417,658,217841,22148,965],"class_list":["post-813480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-henri-matisse","tag-italy","tag-law-enforcement","tag-luigi-magnani","tag-milan","tag-paul-czanne","tag-theft","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}