Posted on 01/11/2014 12:58:24 PM PST by Uncle Chip
to Baltimore Museum where it was stolen more than 60 YEARS ago
The story began with one of those improbable tales of an artistic masterpiece uncovered at a flea market.
It concluded Friday, the painting still a masterpiece but the story about the flea market all the more improbable.
A federal judge has awarded ownership of a disputed Renoir painting to a Baltimore museum, citing 'overwhelming evidence' that the painting had been stolen from the museum more than 60 years ago.
The judge's decision rejected the claims of a Virginia woman, Marcia 'Martha' Fuqua, who maintained that she bought the painting at a flea market for $7, even as others, including her own brother, disputed her story....
As it turned out, Fuqua's mother, who used the name Marcia Fouquet, was an artist who specialized in reproducing paintings from Renoir and other masters, and who had extensive links to Baltimore's art community in the 1950s.
In addition, Fuqua's brother, Owen 'Matt' Fuqua, told a Washington Post reporter that he had seen the painting in the family home numerous times, well before his sister supposedly bought it in 2009, though Matt Fuqua changed his story several times subsequently....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The Daily Mail is nothing but crap. Please refrain from posting their material in the news forum.
France has seized rare antique cars in the United States for no other reason than they can manipulate the courts and the cars are worth a lot of money. If you find a treasure chest of gold or a rare and famous what-have-you. Dispose (sell) it quietly.
Is that now Free Republic policy???
If so, then I think you need to make an official announcement because there are a lot of other people here who post their articles.
A $100,000 Renoir must be a sketch inside a matchbook cover.
The article, which some consider “crap”, says that it was the size of a napkin.
Could have been a cheap cooy
Thanks for posting.
What MSM isn't?
Seriously?
This story is all Fuqua’d up.
The story appears to be true, there are lots of stories about this case out there on the net.
Hardly a day passes without a story posted from The Daily Mail, accompanied by a post or two about why we’re not getting the story in the US press. Sure seems an arbitrary policy if, in fact, it is.
Whoa there, AM. I REALLY like the Daily Mail material posted here. FRiends find great news and human interest items there that simply don’t get published in the MSM in the States. Why do you say it is “crap”?
Lots of stories on this story from Google News:
https://www.google.com/#q=Marcia+’Martha’+Fuqua++&tbm=nws
then someone owes that woman a finders fee
If the museum had it insured, it belongs to the insurance company.
Thanks for posting.
If the museum had it insured, it belongs to the insurance company.
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The Washington Post aritlce I linked to below your post discusses this in
detail but doesn’t ever mention insurance or payments.
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