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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41456847
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Renoir painting stolen before auction near Paris (Original Post)
shenmue
Sep 2017
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democratisphere
(17,235 posts)1. How does that happen?
Painting should have had huge Security. Estimate on the Renoir Painting seems very low.
irisblue
(32,980 posts)2. Thomad Crown Affair?
1999 version
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)3. How does one fence a stolen Renoir?
Or is it sold surreptitiously to a private collector (for whom it might have been stolen in the first place)?
defacto7
(13,485 posts)4. Very private collectors.
MLAA
(17,298 posts)5. I am so sorry to hear this. Greed is universal.
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)6. the article says the painting was valued at $30,000 to $35,000
that makes no sense to me.
If this was a real Renoir painting, even a minor work, it should be in the $100s of thousands to millions.
And stealing such a painting only valued at $35,000 makes no sense either, given that only collectors who will NOT display it publicly or even privately would be in the market for a stolen painting (now famous if it wasn't before).
Something about this is weird.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)8. yikes