Two thieves broke right into a museum devoted to French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir in southern France on Tuesday and stole 4 artworks valued at round €9 million (approx Rs 98 crore), in accordance with the mayor of Cagnes-sur-Mer.The suspects have been noticed in town’s surveillance cameras as they fled the Renoir Museum, with one of many stolen work dropped and recovered throughout their escape, mayor Bryan Masson stated.The museum alarm went off at 5.48 am, and municipal police arrived 5 minutes later, Masson stated.The Renoir Museum, opened in 1960 on the artist’s closing dwelling earlier than his demise in 1919, homes his work in addition to private belongings together with his easel and wheelchair.The theft comes lower than a 12 months after eight objects price round $100 million have been stolen from Paris’ Louvre in a daylight theft.
