The chocolate boxiest of all the impressionists has long had his haters \u2013 even Manet thought he was rubbish. Little surprise then that the thieves ditched two works on the way out<\/p>\n
Stealing from the Louvre you can understand. I mean, who wouldn\u2019t want a G\u00e9ricault or Leonardo to hang in the downstairs loo? Same for the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay too, even the Pompidou \u2013 they\u2019re French museums absolutely rammed full of stunning art, all just begging to be audaciously heisted. But the Renoir Museum? It\u2019s hard to see why anyone would bother.<\/p>\n
As French art fans reel at the news that two Renoir paintings were stolen from the Cagnes-sur-Mer museum<\/a> that bears his name this week, the rest of the art world has been saying really? Him? Renoir? He\u2019s \u2026 awful. It\u2019s like doing a heist of flares in the era of skinny jeans.<\/p>\n
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