"A spokesperson for the São Paulo state government told Hyperallergic that civil police had identified one suspect in the robbery of the Mário de Andrade Library, but did not confirm that works by Matisse or Portinari were among the stolen items. Investigators located the vehicle the thieves used to escape, the spokesperson said, and a second suspect has not yet been identified. "Investigations continue to identify the second suspect and locate the stolen works of art," the spokesperson told Hyperallergic."
"According to , the stolen artworks were part of the exhibition Do Livro ao Museu (From the Book to the Museum), held in partnership with the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo. The exhibition, which explored the production of art books and tensions over abstraction in modern art in Brazil, closed on Sunday. An exhibition checklist suggests that the stolen works came from a limited-edition copy of Matisse's book Jazz, published by the Parisian Tériade Editions in 1947, held in the library's collection."
Thieves removed 13 artworks from the Mário de Andrade Library in São Paulo on December 7, including eight engravings by Henri Matisse and five works by Candido Portinari. Civil police identified one suspect and located the vehicle; a second suspect remains unidentified and investigations continue. The suspects held up a security guard and an elderly couple during the heist. Video shows a suspect carrying several works in public and placing them next to a pile of trash before walking away. The works were part of the Do Livro ao Museu exhibition with the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo and include plates from a limited-edition copy of Matisse's Jazz (1947).
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