Restituted Renoir to Go on View at Baltimore Museum
- March 04, 2014 22:55
A painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir that had been stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art more than 60 years ago will go on public view there this month.
Renoir's "On the Shore of the Seine" will rejoin other works donated by the late Saidie May in an exhibition that runs March 30 through July 20.
A federal judge awarded the Baltimore Museum the painting in January after a lengthy legal dispute with a Virginia woman who claimed she found the Renoir for $7 at a flea market in 2009.
Martha Fuqua, 51, had hoped to net about $100,000 from the sale of the Renoir at auction. The FBI confiscated the Renoir when evidence emerged that the painting was stolen from the museum in 1951.
Fuqua claimed she was an "innocent owner," but the judge ruled that stolen property can not be legally sold.
