Two Renoir paintings remain missing after well-equipped burglars removed four works from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, on Tuesday. The thieves abandoned “Portrait of Madame Pichon” and “Coco Reading” in the museum garden, while “Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano” and “Young Woman at the Well” were taken away. Mayor Bryan Masson estimated the combined value at €9 million ($10.5 million). Art crime experts said the paintings would be extremely difficult to sell through legitimate channels and would lose most of their value on the illicit market. Potential uses include ransom demands, leverage in criminal cases or limited underground exchanges, while some stolen works remain hidden or are destroyed. The theft follows other European museum robberies, including the October 2025 Louvre jewelry heist, and renewed warnings that smaller museums remain vulnerable because of limited security budgets and historic buildings. Italian police recently recovered Renoir’s “Les Poissons” and works by Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse stolen in a separate robbery, with the paintings valued at about $10.4 million.