{"id":503780,"date":"2026-03-30T17:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/503780\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:11:12","slug":"renoir-cezanne-and-matisse-works-stolen-in-three-minute-italian-museum-heist-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/503780\/","title":{"rendered":"Renoir, C\u00e9zanne and Matisse works stolen in \u2018three-minute\u2019 Italian museum heist – The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paintings by Renoir, C\u00e9zanne and Matisse have been stolen from a private museum near the Italian city of Parma in the north of the country. According to a statement from the carabinieri (Italian police), four men entered the Magnani-Rocca Foundation, housed in a rural villa south of Parma, on 22 March to remove Les Poissons\u00a0(1917) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Still Life with Cherries\u00a0(around 1890) by Paul C\u00e9zanne and Odalisque on the Terrace\u00a0(1922) by Henri Matisse.<\/p>\n

According to the Italian newspaper Il Corriere<\/a> della Sera, the hooded criminals entered by forcing open a door. According to a statement provided by the foundation to the newspaper,\u00a0the thieves took less than three minutes to carry out the theft, partly because the alarm system was activated, forcing the gang to flee.<\/p>\n

The lawyer Christopher Marinello, the founder of the company Art Recovery International, tells The Art Newspaper that \u201cthe criminals, who must have scoped out the building in advance, will look to cash out as quickly as possible. They\u2019ve also learnt from the Louvre theft [last year] that they can get into any museum if they cover their faces and move quickly enough. Museums need to start thinking about the possibility of the three-minute theft.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a post on LinkedIn, the intellectual property lawyer Eloise Calder said: \u201cAs methods evolve and operations seem to become more targeted and sophisticated, the challenge is no longer just recovery but prevention. For now though, the immediate focus is on the safe and swift return of these stolen works, something the art world will be watching closely.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Villa Magnani, home to the Magnani-Rocca Foundation<\/p>\n

Photo: Chiara Saffioti<\/a><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Magnani-Rocca Foundation\u00a0is one of the\u00a0most significant private art collections in Italy, housing works by artists such as D\u00fcrer, Titian, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Goya. It was founded in 1977 by the collector Luigi Magnani and opened to the public in 1990. The foundation was contacted for comment.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 30\/03\/2026: This article was updated on 30 March 2026 to correct an image error. An earlier version used an image of Paul C\u00e9zanne\u2019s Still Life With Cherries And Peaches, rather than Still Life with Cherries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paintings by Renoir, C\u00e9zanne and Matisse have been stolen from a private museum near the Italian city of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10746,96,59,479,68296,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-503780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-art-theft","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-italy","12":"tag-pierre-auguste-renoir","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}