
Thieves Caught on Camera Stealing Million-Dollar Artworks in Minutes
A camera captured thieves stealing paintings by French artists Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, and Auguste Renoir in less than three minutes, escaping through museum gardens in March.
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A camera captured thieves stealing paintings by French artists Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, and Auguste Renoir in less than three minutes, escaping through museum gardens in March.

Three significant paintings by French masters Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, and Henri Matisse, reportedly worth millions of euros, were stolen from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation near Parma, Italy, with investigations now running at full speed.

Authorities reported that paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, and Henri Matisse were stolen from a museum in Northern Italy in a daring three-minute robbery.

Paintings by Henri Matisse, Auguste Renoir, and Paul Cézanne were stolen from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation museum near Parma, Italy, in a swift, highly organized three-minute operation by four masked men, with new details emerging about the specific masterpieces taken and the speed of the heist.

Three masterpieces by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, and Henri Matisse were stolen from a private museum in northern Italy in a daring heist that lasted only three minutes.
“A work of art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t art at all,” said Paul Cézanne, while Vincent van Gogh said: “I want to touch people with my art.