Renoir paintings worth $10.5 million missing after museum heist
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- Thieves took four artworks but dropped one as they fled, says mayor of southern town of Cagnes-sur-Mer Two thieves have broken into a museum dedicated to the French impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, stealing four artworks and dropping one as they fled, the local mayor has said. “Spotted…
- It is the latest in a string of high-profile art thefts in Europe that has again put the security of museums and galleries in the spotlight.
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- Police are on the hunt for thieves who stole three paintings from the Renoir Museum on the French Riviera in an overnight heist. A fourth stolen work was abandoned as they fled.
- Police are on the hunt for thieves who stole two paintings from the Renoir Museum on the French Riviera in an overnight heist. Two other stolen works were abandoned as they fled.
- Police are on the hunt for thieves who stole two paintings from the Renoir Museum on the French Riviera in an overnight heist. Two other stolen works were abandoned as they fled.
- The two thieves had attempted to steal a fourth painting, but abandoned it as they ran from the museum.
- A pre-dawn break-in at the Renoir Museum in southern France saw thieves seize four paintings