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Renoir paintings worth $10.5 million missing after museum heist
Two paintings by the French Impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir that were stolen from a museum in southern France a month ago have been recovered, the town’s mayor said.
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They are part of our city’s history,” Bryan Masson, the mayor of Cagnes-sur-Mer, near Nice, said on Friday.
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“Knowing they have been recovered is an immense relief.
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Robbed often, why latest Louvre theft is different
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Six people have been arrested in connection with the theft, local authorities said.
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Masson did not say where the paintings were found or in what condition.
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How the theft unfolded
Two thieves broke into the Renoir Museum a little before 6am on September 8, cutting through a fence to enter the grounds, smashing a window and using an electric saw to cut the clips securing the frames, Masson said at the time.
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He described them as “well equipped” and “well informed”.
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The museum alarm sounded at 5:48am, and municipal police arrived five minutes later, forcing the thieves to flee.
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They had taken four paintings, valued by the mayor at about nine million euros ($10.5m).
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Two of the stolen works – Renoir’s “Portrait of Madame Pichon” and “Coco Reading” – were later found dropped in the museum garden, the prosecutor’s office said at the time.
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The two works that remained missing were “Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano” and “Young Woman at the Well”, the office said.
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Police said last month that the thieves were not first-time offenders and had scoped out the premises.
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The Marseille prosecutor opened a theft investigation into an organised gang, and the national office for trafficking in cultural goods joined the probe.
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A string of museum heists
The museum, opened in 1960, is in the painter’s last home, where he died in 1919.
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“This incident should serve as a warning about the protection of our museums,” Masson said after the robbery.
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The theft came less than a year after jewels worth about $100m were stolen from the Louvre in Paris in a daylight robbery.
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The four suspected robbers have been arrested, but the jewels have not been found.
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In August, Italian police said they had recovered paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse worth more than $10.4m that were stolen from a museum in March.
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