33 years ago, a painting of a nude woman by French master Pierre Auguste-Renoir was stolen from the art collection of a family in Milan, Italy.
On Friday, that family was reunited with the painting, valued at $730,000.
Italian police were able to reclaim the painting by acting on a tip-off from a prominent art critic, Vittorio Sgarbi, who had been contacted by an art gallery owner for a valuation of the master's work.
Police arrested the gallery owner and two other suspects.
Shady McShade!!!
Interesting note: the owner's daughter vouched for the authenticity of the painting through the mark of a ball she hit it with in the early 1970s.
See! Kids running amok in the house isn't a bad thing all the time!
[Image via Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images, by courtesy of Perez Hilton.]
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