US EditionThieves steal Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse paintings in three-minute Italian heist
Three paintings worth about €9 million were stolen in under three minutes by a suspected organized gang targeting high-value European museum artworks.
- On March 22, four masked men broke into the Magnani Rocca Foundation villa near Parma and stole three masterpieces by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Cézanne, and Henri Matisse from the French Room.
- The gang forced their way through the main door, escaping over a fence in three minutes, which the Magnani Rocca Foundation described as 'structured and organised' execution.
- Stolen works include Les Poissons by Renoir, Still Life with Cherries by Cézanne, and Odalisque on the Terrace by Matisse, with combined estimated value of £9m.
- Italy's Carabinieri and the Cultural Heritage Protection Unit of Bologna opened an investigation into the theft, which became public on Sunday following the March 22 incident.
- The heist follows a brazen daylight robbery at the Louvre in Paris last October, suggesting heightened vulnerability among Europe's cultural institutions to organised art theft.
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Paintings by Cézanne, Matisse, and Renoir were stolen in an art heist in Parma. Police are investigating the lightning raid on the Magnani Rocca Foundation.
They are worth about nine million euros: thieves have stolen three precious paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse in Parma, Italy.
The Independent
The Independent (US)Thieves swipe Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse paintings in Italian art heist
The paintings were stolen in less than three minutes from a museum near Parma
Three paintings signed by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse were stolen in just a few minutes from a museum in northern Italy, after four masked individuals were patrolled by explosion in the building. Jaful, described in a quick and well-organized right, was applied before security systems could be activated efficiently, but it was not finished.
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