A Renoir Is Recovered

Stolen Renoir nude recovered after 33 years

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841–December 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s.

Italian police recovered a Renoir painting; oil painting of a nude woman by French master Pierre-Auguste which was stolen from a private collection. Police man arrested three of them. Police arrested the gallery owner and two other suspects.
The Renoir, valued at 500,000 euros (730,000 dollars). It was stolen from a family in Milan in 1975.
It was recovered along with a forgery of a Manet work, which Mr. Sgarbi had also been asked to appraise.


Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/arts/design/29arts-ARENOIRISREC_BRF.html?ref=design