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struggle4progress

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Fri Oct 20, 2017, 04:48 PM Oct 2017

Renoir painting a fake: museum [View all]

... The Art Institute of Chicago said it owns the authentic version of the "Two Sisters (On the Terrace)" painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir and that it’s been hanging in its gallery since 1933 ...

Trump’s biographer, Tim O’Brien, said that years ago while writing his book on the millionaire real estate developer, he spotted the colorful piece hanging in his private jet ...

... Trump was adamant it was authentic.

"Donald, it’s not," O’Brien said. "I grew up in Chicago, that Renoir is called 'Two Sisters (On the Terrace),' and it’s hanging on a wall at the Art Institute of Chicago. That's not an original" ...

http://nypost.com/2017/10/20/trumps-renoir-painting-is-a-fake-museum/

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