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Stolen Renoir Found At Flea Market Returned To Baltimore Museum Of Art

It’s the kind of story you’d expect from a movie script, not a museum logbook. A long-lost Renoir—stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art in the early 1950s—vanishes for over six decades, only to pop up at a flea market in West Virginia for the low, low price of seven bucks. It’s a tale of luck, loss, and the laws that keep art where it belongs.
November 2, 2025 J. Clarke