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Yomiuri: Renoir work stolen from condominium
A painting by French artist Auguste Renoir valued at about 100 million yen was stolen in spring from a 14th-floor condominium in Osaka, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Wednesday.
According to the Osaka prefectural police, a security guard found that the lock on a steel door of the condominium had been forced on the afternoon of April 25.
The painting's owner, who is the president of a real estate company, visited the condominium after she had been informed about the lock and discovered that the painting, "Nude in a Landscape" was missing from the living room.
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At a recent Tokyo sale by Japan's top auction house Shinwa Art Auction an oil by French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "Little Girl with an Orange", fetched 150 million yen (1.4 million dollars) -- almost double the pre-sale estimate of 80 million yen.
