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, forcing 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 held provisionally by France.
- Estimated at around €9 million, the four paintings include "Portrait of Madame Stephen Pichon" and "Coco Reading," which authorities recovered, while "Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano" and "Young Woman at the Well" remain missing.
- Culture Minister Catherine Pégard cited the burglary as evidence of museum vulnerability, announcing her ministry's €30 million security fund established in July to support 482 priority projects across France.
- Mayor Bryan Masson described the suspects as "well equipped and well informed," while investigators continue hunting them after surveillance cameras captured their movements during the break-in.
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Three Stolen Renoir Paintings May Have Been Nazi Looted
Three of the Pierre-Auguste Renoir paintings stolen yesterday morning from a museum in southern France may have been stolen before. France’s Ministry of Culture announced in a press release that three of the four paintings initially snatched from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer had been returned to France from Germany after World War II. They became informally known as “orphans” because their rightful owners were unknown. It’s still unclea…
A burglary in the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer shocked the art world. Two perpetrators stole masterpieces worth millions – but left half of their loot in the museum garden on the run.
Thieves nabbed a $10.5 million Renoir haul, but the paintings may be worth almost nothing outside the museum
Two Renoir paintings stolen from a small French museum have yet to be recovered but if the thieves are hoping to cash in on the artwork, they would be hard-pressed to find a buyer. Selling well-known, stolen art is impossible to do at an auction house or through other public channels without raising eyebrows. Even under the table, the value plummets. And unlike other eye-catching artifacts such as jewels, paintings can’t be chopped up and sold f…
Following the burglary of the Renoir museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer (Alpes-Maritimes), Catherine P visé deplores Wednesday "a sad law of the series", and the acts that "repeated since the flight of the Louvre".
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