Actor Alec Baldwin claims that he paid $190,000 in 2010 for a painting that was not the one he requested to buy, reports the New York Times.

Baldwin alleges that Manhattan dealer Mary Boone sold him a different work by artist Ross Bleckner, a version worked on up to 2010, instead of his asked-for "Sea and Mirror" painting from 1996, the artist's peak period.

"Sea and Mirror" sold at Sotheby's in 2007, and the private collector who owned it reportedly was not letting it go. Baldwin says that Boone initially passed off the version he bought as the original 1996 painting that he badly wanted, but he had doubts.

What followed was a lengthy email trail in a story that has pulled in the artist as well.