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Museums and jewelry enthusiasts are no strangers to Cartier’s greatest bijoux creations, but now, a different sort of show lends insight into one of the house’s greatest American clients and collectors, Marjorie Merriweather Post, once the wealthiest woman in the United States.

Founder of General Foods Inc., Post was a socialite and art collector who in 1973 left her estate with a sizable and exquisite French and Russian art collection featuring the work of Fabergé, Sèvres porcelain, French furniture, tapestries, and numerous paintings. But it is her collection of precious jewels, frames and objets d’art that she amassed from the Parisian jeweler that is on exhibition in “Cartier: Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Dazzling Gems” at her former home, the Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens in Washington D.C., until December 31.

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A European art buyer has sued ABA Gallery and its owner, Anatoly Bekkerman, of selling $6.5 million in fake and overvalued paintings by Russian artists (via Artinfo).

The suit, filed in federal court Friday by a company in Luxembourg, saying Bekkerman had persuaded it to buy four paintings that were forged and 14 more that were "of substantially lesser value than Bekkerman had represented," according to Courthouse News Service.

The works at issue include a $4 million oil painting by Ivan Aivazovsky called "Seascape with Peter the Great," which the Luxembourg company says was worth only $800,000.

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