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 […]
$7 Flea Market Painting is Stolen Renoir
Posted September 27th, 2012 at 6:30 pm (UTC-5)
A painting bought in a West Virginia flea market for $7 along with a toy doll and a plastic cow turns out to be a stolen Renoir worth at least $75,000. The FBI is investigating how the valuable piece of art wound up in a roadside rummage sale in the hills of West Virginia. The […]
