Parma: Paintings by Renoir, Cezanne, and Matisse stolen from the "Magnani Rocca" Foundation
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Three paintings were stolen in recent days from the Magnani Rocca Foundation in Mamiano di Traversetolo (Parma).
This is a work Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir's "Les Poissons," valued at several million, is one of the artist's rare works in a permanent collection in Italy. Also on display are Cézanne's "Still Life with Cherries," painted in 1890, and Matisse's "Odalisque on a Terrace," an aquatint on paper from 1922, in the French Room on the upper floor.
A few days ago, thieves reportedly broke into Villa Magnani, home to the art collection, and managed to steal the painting.
The Carabinieri are investigating.
The Magnani-Rocca Foundation is one of Italy's most important art institutions. The Villa dei Capolavori houses the art collection of the critic, musicologist, and writer Luigi Magnani (1906-1984): works by Titian, Dürer, Rubens, Goya, Canova, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Burri, and the most significant collection of works by Giorgio Morandi. Nestled in the Parma countryside, the Villa retains the charm of a great collector's home, with Neoclassical and Empire furnishings, surrounded by a Romantic Park with exotic plants, monumental trees, and the famous white and multicolored peacocks, emblems of the Symbolist movement.
(Unioneonline)