![Oh, oh … now it appears that this Renoir painting had been stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art. The Washington Post, which was involved in discovering this fact, has the story:
The museum had the painting on loan from one of its famous benefactors, Saidie A. May, a Baltimore native who died in May 1951. Museum records show that the Renoir was stolen on Nov. 17, 1951, just as May’s art collection was being bequeathed to the museum for permanent ownership.
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What the museum found astonished its staff: documents showing that the museum had noted the painting’s theft, and that the BMA had been paid $2,500 by its insurance company for the stolen artwork.
hyperallergic:
Possible Renoir Surfaces at Virginia Flea Market in a Box a Woman Buys for Less Than $50](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb13ijPcpA1qzaos7o1_500.jpg)
Oh, oh … now it appears that this Renoir painting had been stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art. The Washington Post, which was involved in discovering this fact, has the story:
The museum had the painting on loan from one of its famous benefactors, Saidie A. May, a Baltimore native who died in May 1951. Museum records show that the Renoir was stolen on Nov. 17, 1951, just as May’s art collection was being bequeathed to the museum for permanent ownership.
[…]
What the museum found astonished its staff: documents showing that the museum had noted the painting’s theft, and that the BMA had been paid $2,500 by its insurance company for the stolen artwork.
Possible Renoir Surfaces at Virginia Flea Market in a Box a Woman Buys for Less Than $50
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