An Art Heist Again, This Time It’s Renoir

Two paintings by leading French Impressionist Pierre Auguste-Renoir (1841-1919) have been stolen. The two paintings are shown below, The Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano (1910) and Une Jeune Femme Au Puits (1886). Images courtesy: News sources on the web and Wikipedia 

Two paintings by the impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir have been stolen from a museum in the south of France

The paintings, worth €9m (£7.7m; $10.4m), are the latest high-profile pieces to have been stolen in a string of recent heists in Europe which have red flagged the security of art in galleries and museums.
One of the most high-profile brazen heist was in October last year at the Louvre Museum in Paris, in which France’s priceless crown jewels were stolen.
According to news reports, CCTV footage captured the thieves entering the Renoir museum gardens by cutting through a fence and then they cut through structures holding the frames of the paintings.
The police got alerted after the museum’s security alarms went off at 05:48 03:48 GMT) and reached the crime scene.
The reports further stated that the CCTV footage showed thieves were wearing helmets, gloves and combat gear, and they were carrying electric knife and hacksaw.
The thieves took away two paintings and abandoned two pieces in the garden while escaping the scene, which the police recovered.
The two paintings missing are: Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano (1910) and Jeune Femme au Puits (1886); where the two pieces recovered are Portrait of Madame Pichon (1895) and Coco Lisant (1905).
The Renoir Museum is home to 12 of the famous painter’s artworks. Opened in 1960, it was Renoir’s last home before his death in 1919, and also features many things that once belonged to him, including his easel and wheelchair, as well as photographs and personal letters.