A Picasso painting stolen a few days before Christmas from the Sao Paulo Museum of Art was recovered by Brazilian police this week, who have also arrested two suspects.

Pablo Picasso’s “Portrait of Suzanne Bloch” and “O Lavrador de Café” (“The Coffee Worker”) by Brazilian painter Candido Portinari were recovered nearly three weeks after their theft from the Sao Paulo Museum of Art.

State police arrested a second suspect that same day. The paintings, worth a combined $55 million, were found at a house in the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Reuters reports.

They had been stolen on Dec. 21, within a short 3 minutes during which time the thieves forced the museum’s main door open with a hydraulic jack and smashed a glass door with a crowbar.

Sao Paulo Museum of Art president Julio Neves said both paintings were recovered in perfect condition.

The first suspect, Francisco Laerton Lopes de Lima, was taken into police custody nearly two weeks ago. The other suspect, Robson de Jesus Jordao, 32, was arrested Tuesday.

Police Chief Mauricio Freire said both men had extensive criminal records and had made attempts before to rob the museum. Authorities are still investigating who they were working for and where they intended to take the artworks. Officials said it was unclear if either knew much about art.

Neves said the two paintings would be once again on display when the museum opens Friday.

The portrait of singer Suzanne Bloch was painted in 1904, when Picasso was in his early 20s, and is considered the last important work of his “Blue Period.”

Portinari’s work, painted in 1939, depicts a coffee picker on a plantation and is one of his most renowned paintings.

Art experts estimate the value of the Picasso at about $50 million and the Portinari at $5 million to $6 million.

The Associated Press notes that other important paintings present in the Sao Paulo 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,” were ignored by the thieves.

The museum, which had no alarm system or movement sensors, will now install security and surveillance equipment equivalent to that at Paris' Louvre museum, Neves was quoted by the AP as saying.

The stolen art was not insured.