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Mayor Bryan Masson of Cagnes-sur-Mer announced that two Renoir paintings stolen from the Renoir Museum a month ago have been recovered. The artworks, valued at approximately $10.5 million, were part of an initial theft where four pieces were taken; six people have since been arrested in connection with the crime. Masson emphasized the historical significance of the recovered paintings to the town and expressed relief over their return, though he did not provide details on their condition or location upon recovery.
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Story summary
On September 8, two paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir were stolen from the museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, a suburb of Nice. The thieves used an electric saw to cut through frame mountings and initially took four paintings but abandoned two as they fled. The missing works included "Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano (1910)" and "Jeune fille au puits (1886)." A month later, on October 9, the stolen Renoir paintings were recovered, and six people have been arrested in connection with the theft. Mayor Bryan Masson expressed profound relief at their recovery, noting that they are part of the city's cultural heritage. The museum lies near Nice, where Renoir lived during his final years.
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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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