If the recent discovery of the colourful Renoir landscape in a West Virginia flea market sounded to good to be true….it was…as the picture turned out to be stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art.   On the Shore of the Seine, a colourful flickering landscape, was reputedly painted by Renoir for his mistress in
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Art thieves thrive in times of economic hardship. Ooh, the sneaky little villains! Hanging’s not good enough for ’em, says Ivan Lindsay As the recession deepens and the losses filter out from the financials into the wider economy, unemployment is on the rise. In the same week in December as Citicorp announced 50,000 layoffs, the
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