Overview
- Four masked thieves forced a first-floor door at the Magnani-Rocca Foundation near Parma on the night of March 22–23 and escaped across the gardens with three artworks.
- The stolen pieces are Renoir’s Les Poissons (1917), Cézanne’s Still Life with Cherries (c. 1890), and Matisse’s Odalisque on the Terrace (1922).
- Police and the museum say the raid took under three minutes and the alarm cut it short, which likely stopped the thieves from taking more works.
- Investigators from the Carabinieri and its Cultural Heritage Protection Unit are reviewing museum and nearby surveillance video, and the foundation disclosed Sunday it had delayed public notice as the museum stayed open with no arrests announced.
- Reports put the combined value around €9 million with some higher estimates, and the Art Loss Register has logged the works as experts note such paintings are hard to resell and often surface only through ransom attempts or covert private deals.