Artwork stolen in Brazil by Lenka Filipova

It seems it is not much of art to steal art, actually. In Brazil, it has been for the second time within one year, the police called for the art heist. In this case, it has launched a manhunt for two stealers who made away with artworks from the Sao Paulo's Estaco Pinacoteca Museum. According to the police news, they filched two Picasso prints, and in addition to this, they managed to take two paintings by Brazilian painters. Precisely, they took away the famous Picasso's painting The Painter and the Model from 1963 and also Minotaur, Drinker and Women painted in 1933. The other paintings included the works of Emiliano DiCavalcanti, his Women at the Window, and than Couple painted by Lasar Segall. They immediately, started the manhunt beginning with the dusting of the fingerprints, and consequent analysis. To prevent the bandits to get the paintings out of the country, they were forced to alert airport police as well as seaports, which should be permanently seek for the potential stealers. Mauricio Rodrigues, a police spokesman, told that even Interpol was informed too. Then he described the steps which are being taken. He said that two sketches of bandits were made, the one is still not clear, and that the police is asking everybody who may have witness thieves. They took the arts, quite surprisingly, but with frames too, into their bags and in 10 minutes they managed to leave the museum. That is why, the police is questioning every person from the homeless to whoever who bypassed the museum at that time.The museum officials told that the overall lesion of lost prints and painting is calculated to reach 1 million reals, which is approximately 612,000 dollars.

by Lenka Filipova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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