Thieves lift a blue Picasso
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Thieves broke into the leading art museum in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday and stole two oil paintings, the museum said, including one by Pablo Picasso that could be worth about $50 million.
Picasso’s 1904 “Portrait of Suzanne Bloch” and Brazilian painter Candido Portinari’s 1939 “The Coffee Worker” were among the Art Museum of Sao Paulo’s most important exhibits.
The thieves probably specifically targeted the paintings as they were on display in separate rooms on the second floor, the museum said.
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