"It was the last opportunity to view Henri Matisse's collages, part of the Jazz series, when two armed men stormed into Sao Paulo's main municipal library on Sunday. At gunpoint, but without firing a shot, they stole eight artworks by the French artist and five by the Brazilian artist Candido Portinari from the exhibition, which was receiving its first visitors on its closing day."
"The thieves overpowered a security guard after one of them showed her a gun under his shirt. While one of them locked her in a room after taking her radio and cell phone, his accomplice entered the room where the artworks were displayed, intimidated an elderly couple visiting the exhibition, took the pieces down from the wall, put them in a cloth bag, and fled. The Portinari prints they also stole were part of the work Menino do engenho (Boy of the Sugar Mill)."
Two armed men stormed the Mario de Andrade Library in Sao Paulo on the exhibition's closing day and stole eight collages from Henri Matisse's Jazz series and five prints by Candido Portinari. The thieves entered through the main door, overpowered a security guard, locked her in a room after taking her radio and phone, intimidated an elderly visiting couple, removed the works from the walls, placed them in a cloth bag, and fled into the historic center. Several of the Matisse collages had previously been stolen years earlier. One suspect has been identified and arrested. The exhibition marked the library's centenary.
Read at english.elpais.com
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