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If you steal a Renoir painting worth millions... what can you do with it?

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Before sunrise on the French Riviera, inside a quiet hilltop museum once home to Pierre‑Auguste Renoir, thieves slipped through a garden fence and into the headlines. They intended to take 12 Renoir Paintings, but managed to get four. And as police swarmed in, dropped two while making a panicked escape. Now the art world is once again asking: Who steals masterpieces they can never sell?

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