Aug. 14 (UPI) — Long-sought artworks by Henri Mattise, Paul Cezanne and Pierre-August Renoir worth millions of dollars and stolen in two separate cases have been recovered in Italy and Brazil, police said.<\/p>\n
In the Italian city of Parma, authorities announced<\/a> Friday that searches authorized by the local prosecutor’s office had turned up the three paintings stolen in March.<\/p>\n These include Still Life with Cherries, a pencil-and-watercolor on white paper by the post-impressionist artist Paul Cezanne with an estimated value of $6.9 million, Les Poisson (The Fish), an oil-on-canvas by the impressionist artist Renoir valued at $3.5 million, and Odalisque on the Terrace, a color aquatint on paper by the modernist Matisse with worth an estimated $23,000.<\/p>\n No arrests were reported in connection with the recoveries but the investigations were ongoing, the Carabinieri of Parma province said.<\/p>\n The works were stolen<\/a> on March 23 from the Fondazione Magnani Rocca museum in Traversetolo, Italy.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, police in Sao Paulo announced Friday that they recovered eight Matisse artworks taken from the M\u00e1rio de Andrade Library in Sao Bernardo do Campo, which were stolen<\/a> in December.<\/p>\n