Brazilian thieves seem to have a certain appreciation for the art of Pablo Picasso, as the Pinacoteca Museum of San Paulo was robbed Thursday of two Picasso prints and two works by Brazilian artists. This is the second theft of works by Picasso in Sao Paulo in half a year.

Officials said Sao Paulo’s Pinacoteca Museum had been robbed Thursday by three armed robbers. Unlike the previous theft, which occurred in December, these robbers were much bolder, entering the museum in broad light and threatening security guards, reports Reuters.

The three took with them “The Painter and the Model,” a 1963 print of Picasso’s and “Minotaur, Drinker and Women” from 1933, the state culture secretariat said.

The robbers also stole the print “Couple” by Brazilian artist Lasar Segall (1891-1957) and the painting “Women in a Window” by fellow Brazilian Emiliano Di Cavalcanti (1897-1976), per Reuters.

The artworks are estimated at about 1 million reais ($613,000). They belong to the Jose and Paulina Nemirovsky Foundation and were on display in the Pinacoteca Station annex of the museum.

The previous theft had a positive denouement as two suspects were arrested in January, just a couple of weeks after the robbery had been committed at the Sao Paulo Museum of Art.

Pablo Picasso’s “Portrait of Suzanne Bloch” and “O Lavrador de Café” (“The Coffee Worker”) by Brazilian painter Candido Portinari were recovered after being stolen a few days before Christmas.

The paintings, worth a combined $55 million, were found at a house in the outskirts of Sao Paulo. They were both in perfect condition, Sao Paulo Museum of Art president Julio Neves said at the time.

Neither painting was insured. The museum had no alarm system at the time.

Interestingly enough, the December thieves ignored other valuable paintings displayed in the museum, such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “Bather with a Griffon Dog,” Vincent Van Gogh’s “L’Arlesienne” and Henri Matisse’s “Plaster Torso and Bouquet of Flowers,” preferring instead what is considered the last important work of Picasso’s “Blue Period.”