Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Curitiba Receives 139 Paintings Seized in the Operation Car Wash

03/20/2015 - 09h10

Last Thursday (19) afternoon, the Federal Police delivered to the Oscar Niemeyer Museum, in Curitiba, 139 paintings seized during the tenth stage of the Operation Car Wash.

Former Petrobras services director Renato Duque owned 131 of them. The other eight belonged to businessman Adir Assad, who was also arrested in this phase of the operation.
 
Among the paintings, there are Alberto da Veiga Guignard, Djanira and Heitor dos Prazeres artworks. It is the third time the museum receives paintings confiscated in the Car Wash probe. The first consignment had 16 artworks and the second, 48.
 
They will be displayed to the public from April 14, in an exhibition named "Under the Museum's Custody".
 
"At this moment, we are going to exhibit everything we receive. If it is not there, it is because it did not fit in the room", says the museum's cultural director, Estela Sandrini.
 
The artworks received this Thursday will go through quarantine while they are cleaned and their history, technical data and provenance are researched.

"If there is a mould problem, or something similar, we will not display it to avoid contamination of other artworks. If there is no legal provenance, neither we will exhibit it", says the director.
 
According to Federal Police chief Igor Romário de Paula, all 131 artworks that belonged to Renato Duque were displayed inside his apartment.
 
"They were all over the house: in the rooms, hallways and gym. It is a large, two-story apartment. He had a safe room hidden behind a cabinet, but only to store jewellery and family documents", said Paula.
 
p(tagline). Translated by JULIANA CALDERARI

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	The Federal Police delivered to the Oscar Niemeyer Museum 139 paintings seized during the Operation Car Wash