Renoir Work Stolen From Riviera Museum Recovered, Six Individuals Arrested

PARIS, Oct 9 (Reuters) – Two Renoir work price hundreds of thousands of {dollars} that had been stolen from a museum on the French Riviera a month in the past have been recovered and 6 suspects have been arrested, the native mayor stated on Friday.

Thieves had damaged into the grounds of the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer early within the morning of September 8 by means of a gap reduce in a backyard fence and entered by means of a window.

The two work by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, an Impressionist whose works have fetched tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} at public sale, had been “Madame Colonna Romano” and “Young Woman on the Well”. Both belong to Paris’ Orsay Museum and had been on mortgage.

“This information is a supply of immense pleasure and an excellent reduction for the city of Cagnes-sur-Mer and its residents,” mayor Bryan Masson stated in a press release.

The Marseille public prosecutor’s workplace didn’t instantly reply to questions on how the work had been recovered.

The mayor scheduled a press convention on Thursday afternoon then cancelled it in order to not intervene with the investigation.

The thieves had additionally snatched two different work, “Madame Pichon” and “Coco Reading”, a portrayal of Claude, Renoir’s younger son. But they dropped them within the gardens as police, alerted by alarms, arrived and gave chase.

(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon, Inti Landauro; Editing by Kevin Liffey)