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Thursday, March 31, 2005
Renoir painting stolen from Paris auction house
Tete de Jeune Fille
A painting by the French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, valued at about 200,000 euros ($A335,650), has been stolen from the famous auction house Tajan in Paris. The auction house informed the police of the missing painting on Tuesday. The theft of the artwork, entitled Tête de fillette (Head of a little girl), happened while it was displayed in a room of the auction house and not by breaking and entering the premises as police first reported. ...