Ammon News - Three paintings by French masters Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne and Henri Matisse, ​reportedly worth an estimated $10 million in total, ‌have been stolen from a museum in northern Italy, police said on Monday.

The theft took place at ​the Fondazione Magnani Rocca, on the ​outskirts of the city of Parma, during ⁠the night of March 22-23, the Carabinieri ​police said in a statement.

Thieves broke into the ​building's main entrance and took Cezanne's "Tasse et Plat de Cerises" (Cup and plate of cherries), Renoir's "Les Poissons" (The fish) and ​Matisse's "Odalisque sur la Terrasse" (Odalisque on the terrace), ​the police added.

Italian public broadcaster Rai reported the stolen ‌works ⁠were worth 9 million euros ($10.34 million), a figure that was not confirmed by the Carabinieri.

THEFT TOOK LESS THAN THREE MINUTES
The museum, home to ​a private ​collection compiled ⁠by the late music critic and musicologist Luigi Magnani, said separately ​that the theft took less than ​three ⁠minutes.

The Fondazione Magnani Rocca's collection also includes works by Titian, Francisco Goya, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ⁠Claude ​Monet, Peter Paul Rubens and ​Giorgio Morandi, according to its website.

Reuters