Posthumous Sales
Two of Renoir's paintings have sold for more than US$70 million. Bal au moulin de la Galette sold for $78.1 million in 1990.
In 2010, a woman bought Renoir's 1879 Paysages bords de Seine at a Shenandoah Valley flea market for just US$7 as part of a boxed lot. The painting was last sold at Gallerie Bernheim-Jeune in 1926 to Herbert May, husband of Sadie May, a benefactor of the Baltimore Museum of Art. The painting was scheduled to be sold at The Potomack Company, in Alexandria, VA, on September 29, 2012, however the auction was later cancelled due to claims that the painting was stolen from the Baltimore museum in November 1951. The painting is currently being kept at the Potomack Company auction-house until Baltimore museum officials and the FBI determine the owners of the painting.
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