Sale of flea market Renoir postponed; painting may be stolen from BMA

HARPERS FERRY – Plans to auction off a landscape by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir – a $100,000 piece purchased in a box for $7 at a flea market here – were scrapped after auction house officials learned the painting may have been stolen from a museum in 1951.

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