{"id":366437,"date":"2026-03-30T21:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/366437\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:03:09","slug":"thieves-steal-paintings-worth-10m-by-cezanne-matisse-and-renoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/366437\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves Steal Paintings Worth $10M by C\u00e9zanne, Matisse, and Renoir"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Italian police are searching for the works after a middle-of-the-night heist at a small museum outside of Parma.<\/p>\n


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\n Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s 1917 “Les Poissons” is one of three missing paintings following an art heist in northern Italy. (image public domain via Wikimedia<\/a>) <\/p>\n

In a heist lasting less than three minutes, thieves nabbed paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul C\u00e9zanne, and Henri Matisse from a small museum in northern Italy, according to local police<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the night of March 22 and early morning of March 23, multiple suspects reportedly entered the campus of the Magnani Rocca Foundation, a museum dedicated to the collection of the late critic and collector Luigi Magnani, about 12 miles outside of Parma.<\/p>\n

The thieves grabbed Renoir\u2019s \u201cLes Poissons\u201d (1917), C\u00e9zanne\u2019s \u201cCup and Plate of Cherries\u201d (c. 1890), and Matisse\u2019s \u201cOdalisque on the Terrace\u201d (1922), together reportedly<\/a> worth an estimated $10 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Local media<\/a> described<\/a> the incident as a highly organized operation. However, the suspects were unsuccessful in attempts to take additional masterpieces from the institution\u2019s collection, which includes works by Francisco de Goya, Giorgio Morandi, and Claude Monet, because they were intercepted by the museum\u2019s security system.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Italian national police, the Carabinieri, responded to the museum promptly and is investigating the crime, local media reported. Police has not yet responded to Hyperallergic\u2019s requests for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"“Tasse et plat de cerises (Cup and Plate of Cherries)” (c. 1890) (image public domain via Wikimedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The incident comes six months after a major art heist<\/a> at the Louvre in Paris renewed public conversations about adequate security at European arts institutions. At least three other museums \u2014 the Adrien Dubouch\u00e9<\/a> institute in Limoges, La Maison des Lumi\u00e8res Denis Diderot<\/a>, and the French national natural history museum<\/a> \u2014 were also targeted by thieves last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bill Anderson, co-founder of the security company Art Guard, which claims to protect works held by the Museum of Modern Art and Sotheby\u2019s, told Hyperallergic that there might be a link between the institutions targeted in the recent spate of heists.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of these recent thefts have exposed major weaknesses in protection, more so in Europe, where so many museums and galleries were not purpose-built, but converted from a facility not designed to house and safekeep art,\u201d\u00a0Anderson said.<\/p>\n

Located in the neoclassical Villa dei Capolavori (Villa of Masterpieces) in the Parma countryside, the Magnani Rocca Foundation describes itself as \u201cone of the most important artistic institutions in Europe.\u201d Luigi Magnani, a prolific art collector, founded the institution in 1977 to promote visual arts, music, and literature. He bequeathed the mansion to the foundation after his passing in 1984, and the house opened as a museum in 1990.<\/p>\n

All of the stolen works, which are relatively lesser-known among the artists\u2019 oeuvres, belong to the museum\u2019s permanent collection.<\/p>\n

A contact for the foundation did not respond to Hyperallergic\u2019s request for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News Italian police are searching for the works after a middle-of-the-night heist at a small museum outside of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-366437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}