{"id":593882,"date":"2026-09-08T12:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T12:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/593882\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T12:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T12:26:09","slug":"thieves-steal-works-worth-18m-from-renoir-museum-in-france-says-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/593882\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves steal works worth $18m from Renoir Museum in France, says mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFP<\/p>\n<p>8 Sep, 2026 08:31 AM2 mins to read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">One of four artworks stolen from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, was dropped as the thieves fled. Photo \/ Valery Hache, AFP<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Two thieves broke into a museum dedicated to French impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir in southern France on Tuesday, stealing \u201cfour works of art\u201d, one of which they dropped as they fled, a mayor said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cThis morning, two individuals broke into the Renoir Museum and stole four works of art,\u201d said<br \/>\n         Bryan Masson, the far-right mayor of the town of Cagnes-sur-Mer.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSpotted thanks to the town\u2019s video surveillance cameras, the two individuals fled, abandoning one of the stolen paintings as they ran,\u201d he said, adding his office estimated the value of the stolen works at \u20ac9 million ($17.8m).<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">The Renoir Museum was opened in 1960 in the painter\u2019s last home before he died in 1919.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Its collection includes objects and furniture that belonged to Renoir, including his easel and wheelchair, as well as portraits, landscapes and nudes painted by the artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 8 Sep, 2026 08:31 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20389,1228,46300,40869,28157,156,7813,3011,1221,11775,71,102174,78,296,10934,3586,111,139,69,35731,292802,102172,3048,312,171,36096,4744,8229,66960,14578,5977,15146,19985],"class_list":["post-593882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-18m","tag-art","tag-broke","tag-dedicated","tag-dropped","tag-entertainment","tag-fled","tag-four","tag-france","tag-french","tag-from","tag-impressionist","tag-in","tag-into","tag-mayor","tag-museum","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-painter","tag-pierreauguste","tag-renoir","tag-said","tag-says","tag-southern","tag-steal","tag-stealing","tag-they","tag-thieves","tag-tuesday","tag-which","tag-works","tag-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}