The woman said she did not know the painting was a Renoir when she bought it, even though it was held in a frame with a RENOIR 1841-1919 panel attached.
To: Uncle Chip
The Daily Mail is nothing but crap. Please refrain from posting their material in the news forum.
To: Uncle Chip
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.
To: Uncle Chip
A $100,000 Renoir must be a sketch inside a matchbook cover.
5 posted on
01/11/2014 1:07:26 PM PST by
Atlas Sneezed
("Income Inequality?" Let's start with Washington DC vs. the rest of the nation!)
To: Uncle Chip
Could have been a cheap cooy
7 posted on
01/11/2014 1:12:00 PM PST by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Uncle Chip
8 posted on
01/11/2014 1:12:49 PM PST by
SunTzuWu
To: Uncle Chip
This story is all Fuqua’d up.
To: Uncle Chip
then someone owes that woman a finders fee
16 posted on
01/11/2014 1:27:36 PM PST by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: Uncle Chip
If the museum had it insured, it belongs to the insurance company.
17 posted on
01/11/2014 1:30:23 PM PST by
Forgotten Amendments
(I remember when a President having an "enemies list" was a scandal. Now, they have a kill list.)
To: Uncle Chip
Had read about it being bought for next to nothing in a flea market, but didn't hear about this little twist.
Thanks for posting.
19 posted on
01/11/2014 1:33:01 PM PST by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
To: Uncle Chip
The painting was stolen and rightfully returned to its rightful owner. Judges ruling was correct.
24 posted on
01/11/2014 1:59:11 PM PST by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
To: Uncle Chip
As for her compensation, the museum should give her a lifetime pass. And the display should have a small tag mentioning her name.
There. Everybody’s happy.
38 posted on
01/11/2014 2:23:42 PM PST by
Sir Napsalot
(Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
To: Uncle Chip
54 posted on
01/11/2014 3:40:30 PM PST by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: Uncle Chip
I thought it’d be worth more than that.
56 posted on
01/11/2014 3:51:13 PM PST by
BonRad
(The world is full of educated derelicts-Calvin Coolidge)
To: Uncle Chip
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. I live in MD - this has been a story of interest for some time in the area.
What DM DOESN'T mention is that the woman's mother was an art student at the time in Baltimore. She then began an affiliation with the Baltimore Museum of Art [internship, I think].
After she left the program, the BMA noticed the painting missing and reported the theft.
Co-Inky-Dinky ??? I think not ...
58 posted on
01/11/2014 3:53:30 PM PST by
Lmo56
(If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
To: Uncle Chip
I posted a DM article yesterday. I like their NEWS articles. They have articles the LEFT ARM of the DEM/White House media won’t print. Their celebrity section I avoid like the plague. Every day, multiple gossip about the: Kardashians, Katie Holmes, ....
77 posted on
01/11/2014 4:59:01 PM PST by
machogirl
(First they came for my tagline)
To: Uncle Chip
I enjoy a lot of the impressionist and fauve era paintings, but this piece here looks like a leftover palette after working on some other painting. This is what happens when I wipe my oil, and turpentine soaked brushes off on a paper Kleenex. One man’s junque is another man’s ambrosia, right?
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