SAO PAULO, Aug 18, 2008 (AFP) - Brazilian police have recovered a Picasso engraving stolen June 12 in a bold daylight heist in Sao Paulo, authorities said Monday.
"Minotaur, Drinker and Women", a 1933 work by the Spanish master, was discovered in a home on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, the state security secretariat said. It was undamaged.
The engraving was the last of four works to be recovered from the robbery.
Police in June found another Picasso engraving, "The Painter and His Model", and earlier this month found the paintings "Women at the Window" (1926) and "Couple" (1919) by the Brazilian artists Lasar Segall and Di Cavalcanti.
The artworks were grabbed by a gang of robbers who walked into Sao Paulo's Pinacoteca museum and rounded up the guards at gunpoint.
Their joint value was estimated at 630,000 dollars, but they were not insured.
Three suspects were in police custody.
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