Collector challenges Sotheby’s assessment of a purported Renoir pastel
Collector Robert Kitchen argued that an image Sotheby’s classified as a print was a pastel study by Pierre-Auguste Renoir for The Bathers. The New York court dismissed his claim and declined to set that decision aside. Image: Renoir’s completed The Great Bathers, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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