were being transported from a suburb to the Bellas Artes National Museum. Culture Secretary Jose Nun described the paintings as being "of great national value" and described the robbery as "an enormous loss to Argentine culture." See also Louis Aragon Culture of Argentina Infamous Decade Latin American art Pop Art Social realism Lino Enea Spilimbergo Rafael Squirru References External links Paintings at Ten Dreams Galleries Antonio Berni on e-flux 1905 births 1981 deaths 20th-century Argentine painters 20th-century Argentine male artists Argentine male painters Argentine muralists Argentine people of Italian descent Argentine portrait painters Artists from Rosario, Santa Fe Burials at La Chacarita Cemetery People from Rosario, Santa Fe