Man absconds with Renoir

Austrian public broadcaster ORF is reporting that a painting by PierreAuguste Renoir has been stolen from an auction house in Vienna. The station said that the unknown thief walked into the Dorotheum auction house, removed the painting from the wall and walked off with it Monday. It quoted the auction house and Vienna police confirming an art theft, but not that it was a work by Renoir. An auction listing for the Renoir painting Golfe, Mer, Falaises Vertes has been removed from the Dorotheum’s website.