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Picasso Print Recovered in São Paulo

By ARTINFO

Published: July 21, 2008
SAO PAULO—São Paulo police have recovered a Picasso print stolen from the Pinacoteca de Estado museum last month and arrested a man in connection with the crime, the New York Times reports via the Associated Press. Wesley Teobaldo Barros, 30, was arrested as a suspect in the museum theft, along with two men who were under surveillance in a separate investigation and who mentioned the Picasso in a tapped phone conversation. The Painter and the Model (1963) was found in perfect condition, but the three other works from the same heist — another Picasso print and two paintings by Brazilian artists — are still missing.
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