Artworks stolen from Renoir Museum on French Riviera in latest heist

Police are on the hunt for thieves who stole two paintings from the Renoir Museum on the French Riviera in an overnight heist. Two other stolen works were abandoned as they fled.

Four Renoir paintings worth an estimated $10.5 million were stolen from a French museum, though they abandoned two of the paintings as they fled. Two suspected thieves are still on the run.

French police are hunting for a pair of thieves who stole Renoir paintings worth millions of pounds from a museum in the French Riviera.

Two individuals were caught on CCTV fleeing the Renoir Museum, the painter's last home before his death in 1919, with four paintings.

Raiders broke into the museum and took four paintings

It is the latest in a string of high-profile art thefts in Europe that has again put the security of museums and galleries in the spotlight.

A police officer stands near a hole cut by the thieves in the outer fence of the Musee Renoir after four paintings, together valued at nine million euros, were stolen in an early-morning break-in, with one recovered nearby and two suspects still at large, in Cagnes-sur-Mer on…

A group of "well-equipped" thieves broke into the museum in the early hours of the morning, stealing four artworks but dropping two as they fled.

The mayor of Cagnes-sur-Mer said the two thieves stole four works of art, but dropped one as they fled.

Mayor estimates works of art are worth €9 million