Three Stolen Renoir Paintings May Have Been Nazi Looted
Police say two suspects escaped with two Renoir works worth about €9 million after a pre-dawn raid at the museum.
- On Tuesday, two suspects breached the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, stealing four paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir before police arrived within five minutes and forced them to abandon two works in the garden.
- Three of the stolen works are classified as Musées Nationaux Récupération , cultural property recovered after the Second World War that was originally looted by Nazis from Jewish families and French museums.
- Estimated at around 9 million, the four paintings include "Portrait of Madame Stephen Pichon" and "Coco Reading," which were recovered, while "Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano" and "Young Woman at the Well" remain missing.
- Culture Minister Catherine Pégard cited the burglary as demonstrating museum vulnerability and called for stronger security; her ministry announced a €30 million fund in July supporting 482 priority projects across France.
- Investigators are actively hunting for the suspects, whom Mayor Bryan Masson described as "well equipped and well informed," while surveillance cameras captured their movements during the three-minute break-in.
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Thieves pull off $10.5 million Renoir museum heist in under 3 minutes
Les Collettes is the house where Pierre-Auguste Renoir spent his final years, and it still holds the furniture, the easel, and the wheelchair he used before his death in 1919. Two thieves broke into the museum built around it early on Tuesday. They took four Renoir paintings and escaped with two of them. The alarm at the Musée Renoir in Cagnes-sur-Mer went off at 5:48 a.m. and police reached the site five minutes later, according to CNN. The pai…
Stolen at the Renoir Museum on Tuesday, the paintings are added to the list of subtlety works in recent months that led the Minister of Culture to announce an emergency action plan in July.
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Staten Island AdvanceFrench museum searching for missing Renoir paintings after bold early morning theft
French authorities are searching for two missing Pierre-Auguste Renoir paintings after thieves broke into the Renoir Museum in southern France and carried out a carefully planned art theft that lasted only a few minutes, CNN reported. Museum officials said four paintings were initially taken, but two were recovered after the suspects dropped them while fleeing the scene.
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