A woman who bought a $7 box lot at a flea market may have unwittingly scored an original painting by Pierre-August Renoir. An auction house believes the landscape to be Renoir's "Paysage Bords de Seine," which it values between $75,000 and $150,000.
The Shenandoah Valley resident, who wishes to remain anonymous, was drawn to the box for the Paul Bunyan doll and plastic cow included with the painting. "I'd never seen a Paul Bunyan doll before," she told The Huffington Post in a phone conversation, identifying herself only as "Renoir Girl."
She liked the painting's frame too, she said, and planned to reuse it. After a year and a half of shuttling the small landscape and the box's other remaining contents in a white trash bag between her garage, car and kitchen, she began the operation of removing it. It was after she'd ripped the backing paper off the frame that her mother advised her to verify the painting's value before throwing it away.
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