{"id":41224,"date":"2026-08-19T23:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/41224\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T23:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:13:22","slug":"italian-police-recover-stolen-renoir-cezanne-and-matisse-artworks-worth-millions-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/41224\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Police Recover Stolen Renoir, C\u00e9zanne and Matisse Artworks Worth Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-240204\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/credit-SIM-Carabinieri-released-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  \/>\u2013 credit, SIM Carabinieri, released<\/p>\n<p>From the Italian police\u2019s crack art crimes team comes the news that 3 stolen paintings by famous French artists were recovered and returned to their owners.<\/p>\n<p>The Carabinieri, or military police, report that the paintings had been stolen in a heist from the private museum of the Magnani Rocca Foundation on March 22nd.<\/p>\n<p>They include\u00a0Fish\u00a0by Pierre August Renoir, Still Life with Cherries\u00a0by Paul C\u00e9zanne, and Odalisque on the Terrace\u00a0by Henri Matisse, which together are valued at over $10 million.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simcarabinieri.it\/recuperati-i-tre-capolavori-di-cezanne-matisse-e-renoir-trafugati-a-marzo-9-persone-iscritte-nel-registro-degli-indagati\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">statement<\/a> from the authorities detail that 9 Moldovan nationals are currently in custody as suspects pending an investigation. It also detailed that a 4th painting, another Renoir called Paysage de Cagnes, was abandoned during the escape from the villa that houses the foundation\u2019s museum.<\/p>\n<p>The thieves escaped across the garden after triggering an alarm, and left behind according to the statement, a previously stolen tractor which they used to batter down the gate which led to the villa.<\/p>\n<p>MORE ART SQUAD BUSTS:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe National Secretary for the Military Police expresses its applause and profound gratitude to all its colleagues engaged in the brilliant recovery of the masterworks,\u201d the translated statement read, without additional details about how the three-pronged recovery operation was conducted, or where, or with what leads.<\/p>\n<p>Still Life with Cherries\u00a0is by far the most valuable of the 3, having last moved at auction for $7 million. Painted by Paul C\u00e9zanne in the penultimate decade of the 19th century, spherical fruit had become commonplace in the author\u2019s Post-Impressionist period, with apples, pears, and peaches routinely appearing in his still life works.<\/p>\n<p>Only two other works that include cherries are known, and this one is the only one of the 3 that includes no other fruit.<\/p>\n<p>SHARE This Great Police Work To Recovery This Patrimony For Art Lovers In Italy\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2013 credit, SIM Carabinieri, released From the Italian police\u2019s crack art crimes team comes the news that 3&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[75,436,3974,5,617,77,2020],"class_list":["post-41224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-italy","tag-art","tag-crime","tag-found","tag-italy","tag-museums","tag-painting","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}