Overview
- Police say two gunmen entered the Mario de Andrade Library’s exhibition space, held up a guard and an elderly couple, and accessed a glass display.
- The thieves took eight Matisse engravings and five works by Brazilian painter Candido Portinari before fleeing through the main exit.
- São Paulo authorities told ABC News the suspects were last seen entering the Anhangabaú subway station and remain at large.
- The stolen pieces came from the exhibition From the Book to the Museum, a collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, with Folha reporting some Matisse works were from his 1947 book Jazz.
- Officials have not disclosed the value of the missing works, and coverage notes the case follows the recent $100 million jewelry theft at the Louvre in Paris.