{"id":764064,"date":"2026-09-08T15:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T15:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764064\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T15:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T15:24:10","slug":"two-renoir-paintings-worth-e9m-stolen-from-renoir-museum-in-south-of-france-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764064\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Renoir paintings worth \u20ac9m stolen from Renoir Museum in South of France &#8211; The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">Two paintings by the French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir have been stolen from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-mer in the South of France. The thieves took four paintings but dropped two as they fled, according to latest reports on the\u00a0<a class=\"transition-colors duration-default shadow-externalLink hover:text-red-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cmdx0grlp92gt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BBC<\/a>. The mayor&#8217;s office said the estimated value of the stolen art was \u20ac9m.\u00a0The museum was contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">Bryan Masson, the town\u2019s mayor, said: \u201cThe museum\u2019s alarm was triggered at 5.48am [&#8230;] At 5.53am, just five minutes later, our municipal police were on the scene [&#8230;] The perpetrators are being actively sought and the investigation is ongoing. Attacking the Renoir Museum is attacking a part of the history and heritage of Cagnes-sur-Mer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">The museum has a collection of 13 Renoir paintings and around 40 sculptures on display. According to the mayor\u2019s office,\u00a0Madame Colonna Romano\u00a0(1910) and\u00a0Jeune femme au puits (Young Woman at the Well) (1886) are reportedly the two paintings that are missing. The other paintings reportedly taken were\u00a0Portrait of Madame Pichon\u00a0(1895) and\u00a0Coco Lisant\u00a0(1905).<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">Masson reportedly said that the thieves \u201cwere wearing helmets, gloves and combat gear\u201d and carried \u201can electric knife and hacksaw\u201d as they entered the museum gardens by cutting through a fence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">The Renoir heist follows a number of thefts at major museums across Europe. Last month four works by the Renaissance master Antonello da Messina were <a class=\"transition-all duration-default shadow-internalLink hover:text-red-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/2026\/08\/17\/four-works-by-sicilian-renaissance-master-stolen-from-messina-museum\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stolen from the Museo Regionale di Messina<\/a> in the artist\u2019s hometown in Sicily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">The exhibition\u00a0Renoir and Love, which includes more than 40 paintings, opens next month at the National Gallery in London (3 October-31 July 2027).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two paintings by the French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir have been stolen from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-mer in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[10746,6225,6485,6486,1120,96,97242,68296,102114,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-764064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-art-theft","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-museum-theft","tag-pierre-auguste-renoir","tag-thefts","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764064","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=764064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}