Thieves steal three paintings from Renoir Museum on French Riviera
Thieves stole four Renoir works valued at about €9 million, and police say two were recovered after the suspects fled the museum.
- On Tuesday, thieves stole four Renoir paintings from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, abandoning two in the garden as they fled. Mayor Bryan Masson confirmed the theft at the historic home of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
- The alarm system triggered at 5:48 a.m. local time, and police arrived five minutes later. Their swift response "forced the burglars to flee in haste and helped limit the scale of the theft," Masson said.
- Perpetrators entered the museum by slicing through a fence to access the ground floor. Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano and Young Woman at the Well remain missing from the four stolen works.
- Mayor Masson called for greater security measures for museums across France following the incident. The theft echoes the spectacular heist of crown jewels at the Louvre Museum in Paris last year.
- Art theft expert James Ratcliffe of the Art Loss Register warned that organized crime increasingly targets traditional art. Without increased funding, museums risk being perceived as "straightforward places to steal from," he noted.
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Two thieves managed early this morning to enter the Renoir Museum of Cagnes-sur-Mer, near Nice, and to steal from it four works of the Impressionist painter, two of which were found in the park of the institutionTwo thieves managed to enter at dawn Tuesday in the Renoir Museum of Cagnes-sur-Mer, on the French Riviera and to steal four works, two of which were found in the park, after this burglary which revives the question of the security of Fr…
Theft of two Renoir paintings in Cagnes-sur-Mer museum; assault in less than five minutes, open investigation.
Two suspects broke into Cagnes-sur-Mer early in the morning; the authorities maintain a large operation to recover the remaining pieces.
There are memories of the burglary in the Louvre: valuable paintings by the impressionist artist Renoir have been stolen from a museum in the south of France. Part of the loot left the perpetrators behind in their escape.
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