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Renoir Paintings Are Worth a Fortune, but Not when They Are Stolen!

Summary by Hindustan Times
Tuesday’s theft at the Renoir Museum — the last home of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir in the French Riviera — marks the latest high-profile art crime targeting collections around the world, and experts warn there could be more.

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The investigators of the judicial police are trying to trace the criminals who fled with two canvases, this Tuesday, September 8, 2026.

Cops arrived about five minutes after the alarm and recovered a painting, but the invaders escaped with three others, estimated at approximately R$ 53 million.

Two thieves broke into the Auguste Renoir museum in Caen-sur-Mer, near Nice, and took four of the most valuable works in the exhibition from the walls. The lightning-fast robbery took place early Tuesday morning and lasted less than three minutes. The four works targeted are estimated to be worth a total of about 9 million euros. The attackers first cut through the garden fence and then entered the building through the ground floor. They were we…

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