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A New York Post piece traces how Renoir’s 1881 portrait Pink and Blue of Elisabeth and Alice Cahen d’Anvers follows their lives from Belle Époque Paris to catastrophe: the shadow of antisemitism and the Dreyfus affair, Elisabeth’s later Catholic conversion and death in Drancy during WWII, and Alice’s escape to Britain; the painting’s journey across the Atlantic eventually leads to its home in the São Paulo Museum of Art.
Thieves breached the Magnani-Rocca Foundation outside Parma, Italy, in about three minutes, stealing three paintings—Renoir’s Les Poissons, Cézanne’s Still Life With Cherries, and Matisse’s Odalisque on the Terrace—worth roughly $10 million; a fourth work was abandoned after the security system interrupted the theft, and investigators say the heist appears to have been well planned as part of a structured operation.
Paintings by Renoir (Les Poissons, 1917), Cezanne (Tasse et plat de cerises, 1890), and Matisse (Odalisque sur la terrasse, 1922) were stolen from the Magnani Rocca Foundation near Parma, Italy in a three-minute raid overnight March 22–23; four hooded thieves forced a first-floor door, alarms sounded as they fled through the museum’s garden; the theft is described as planned and organized, with no arrests yet; the foundation’s works are globally loaned and the Carabinieri art squad are investigating.
Three paintings—Renoir's Fish, Cézanne's Still Life with Cherries, and Matisse's Odalisque on the Terrace—were stolen from a museum near Parma, northern Italy, in a brazen heist reported March 30, 2026.
Four masked thieves stole three paintings—Les Poissons by Renoir, Still Life with Cherries by Cézanne, and Odalisque on the Terrace by Matisse—from the Magnani Rocca Foundation near Parma. The three-minute raid was interrupted by alarms, and the burglars escaped over a fence.