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Wednesday, 05 March 2014 11:57

Restituted Renoir Painting to go on View at Baltimore Museum of Art

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's 'On the Shore of the Seine,' 1879. Pierre-Auguste Renoir's 'On the Shore of the Seine,' 1879. The Potomack Company Auctions & Appraisals

Earlier this year, a judge ordered that a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir be returned to the Baltimore Museum of Art. The work, which had been purchased in 2009 at a Virginia flea market, was stolen from the museum in 1951.

Martha Fuqua, the woman who made the seven-dollar flea market purchase, argued that she deserved to hold on to “On the Shore of the Seine,” a small landscape painting, because she was unaware that it had been stolen when she purchased it. Fuqua attempted to sell the work at auction for $100,000, but it was confiscated by the FBI after it was revealed that the painting belonged to the museum.

“On the Shore of the Seine” will be on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art from March 30 through July 20.  

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