Brazil police find stolen Picasso print

Police have arrested a man suspected of stealing two Pablo Picasso prints last month from a museum in Sao Paulo and recovered one of the works, police and a museum official say.

Inspector Cesar Carlos Dias says information obtained through wiretaps during an investigation of a “gang of robbers” led police to Ueslei Barros, who allegedly confessed that he took part in the art heist.

Barros took police to the district of Itaquera where he had hidden Picasso’s “The Painter and the Model” in the attic of a building in a housing project. The print, he said, was inside a plastic bag.

Marcelo Araujo, director of the Estacao Pinacoteca Museum, told reporters today the print was in its frame and in “perfect condition”.