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Thieves steal $7-million in paintings
©Associated Press
January 2, 2003
NAPLES -- Thieves broke into a Naples beachfront home and stole two French impressionist-era paintings with a combined value of nearly $7-million, police said.
The paintings were stolen sometime between Saturday morning and Sunday evening from the home of Lee Anderson, officials said. The security system was not on at the time, according to insurance investigators.
One of the paintings, a Claude Monet work titled Paysage a Vetheuil, is worth $4-million, officials said. The other, La Place de Trinite by Auguste Renoir has a value of $2.7-million. The Monet painting was done in 1880; the Renoir, in 1893.
Insurance adjuster Harold Smith said nothing else was taken from the home.
"It seems like they were only after the paintings," said Smith, the adjuster for American International Group Inc.
Naples police officials said they are unsure whether the paintings were stolen by professional art thieves.
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