THE DAILY STORY FBI agents recovered “Odalisque in Red Pants,” a painting by Henri Matisse that had been missing for nearly a decade, in an elaborate sting on Tuesday. The Daily Mail reports that two suspects attempted to sell the painting to agents posing as art collectors at the Loews Hotel in Miami Beach. Currently valued at £2 million ($3.1 million), the canvas had originally been bought by the Sofía Imber Contemporary Art Museum in Caracas, Venezuela for $400,000 in 1981, and was included in exhibitions at prestigious museums around the world. [Read more on Artinfo]
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FBI agents recovered “Odalisque in Red Pants,” a painting by Henri Matisse that had been missing for nearly a decade, in an elaborate sting on Tuesday. The Daily Mail reports that two suspects attempted to sell the painting to agents posing as art collectors at the Loews Hotel in Miami Beach. Currently valued at £2 million ($3.1 million), the canvas had originally been bought by the Sofía Imber Contemporary Art Museum in Caracas, Venezuela for $400,000 in 1981, and was included in exhibitions at prestigious museums around the world. [Read more on Artinfo]

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