A painting by the French artist Henri Matisse, stolen more than a decade ago has been handled back to the Venezuelan authorities by the U.S officials. The painting, Odalisque in Red Pants, was recovered in Miami Beach in an undercover operation two years aho.
An American and a Mexican citizen were both arrested and convicted of theft. The painting used to be on display in a museum in Caracas, was replaced by a fake but the switch took years to discover.
Its quite funny though because the whites are professionals in whatever they do thats why it took that long to discover it though...
This paint above was painted in 1925, Odalisque in Red Pants and was valued at more than $3 million...wow thats quite huge.
It was bought by the Venezuelan government from a gallery in New York in 1981.
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