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September 11th, 2012

A Virginia woman’s flea market find may in fact be a lost Renoir. The image, which is likely to be auctioned off at the Potomack Company on September 29th, named “Paysage Bords de Seine” is in Renoir’s catalogue raisonné and appears to have the artist’s name written on the frame. Although it is unclear how it ended up at this flea market sale, it was allegedly bought by art collectors Herbert and Sadie A. May from the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery in 1925.

Read the article via the New York Times