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  • Woman 'who bought Renoir for $7 at flea market' faces FBI investigation .... painting was stolen

    04/07/2013 7:12:27 AM PDT · by Uncle Chip · 52 replies
    The Daily Mail Online ^ | April 7, 2013 | NINA GOLGOWSK
    A Virginia woman claiming to have purchased Renoir painting for $7 at a flea market has been unmasked and is now under FBI investigation after it emerged the painting was stolen in 1951. Marcia 'Martha' Fuqua from Loudon County, Virginia, had tried to remain anonymous and said she purchased the painting simply for its frame and had no special ‘understanding of art.’ But it has now emerged that the painting 'On the Shore of The Seine' was reported stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1951, according to the Washington Post. The FBI seized the painting late last year...