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Renoir Painting Found in Box of Junk

Posted September 29th, 2012 at 7:05 am (UTC-5)
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Museum officials and police in the U.S. city of Baltimore are trying to unravel the mystery of how a Renoir painting, stolen from the museum more than 60 years ago, ended up in a box of junk sold for $7 two years ago. The woman who bought the “junk box” at a flea market had […]

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Poland Receives Stolen World War Two Painting

Posted July 27th, 2011 at 9:35 am (UTC-5)
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A painting by prominent 19th-century Polish artist Aleksander Gierymski that went missing during World War Two has been returned to Poland. The painting, Jewish Woman Selling Oranges, was taken from the National Museum in Warsaw during the final months of the war. But the oil-on-canvas painting re-surfaced last November when it was among items put […]

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Poland Receives Stolen World War Two Painting

Posted July 27th, 2011 at 8:10 am (UTC-5)
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A painting by prominent 19th-century Polish artist Aleksander Gierymski that went missing during World War Two has been returned to Poland. The painting, Jewish Woman Selling Oranges, was taken from the National Museum in Warsaw during the final months of the war. But the oil-on-canvas painting re-surfaced last November when it was among items put […]

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