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From 2017: Donald Trump's Fake Renoir: The Untold Story
Trump biographer Tim O’Brien talks about his years covering the developer turned reality star turned president—including a bizarre incident involving a fake impressionist painting.By Nick Bilton
October 13, 2017
Donald Trump in New York City; Two Sisters (On the Terrace) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Left, by Ron Galella/WireImage; Right, from Fine Art Images/Heritage Images, both from Getty Images.
Years ago, while reporting a book about a real-estate developer and reality-TV star named Donald Trump, Tim O’Brien accompanied his subject on a private jet ride to Los Angeles. The plane, as you can imagine, was overly ornate; hanging on one wall, for instance, was a painting of two young girls—one in an orange hat, the other wearing a floral bonnet—in the impressionistic style of Renoir.
Curious, O’Brien asked Trump about the painting: was it an original Renoir? Trump replied in the affirmative. It was, he said. “No, it’s not Donald,” O’Brien responded. But, once again, Trump protested that it was.
“Donald, it’s not,” O’Brien said adamantly. “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.” He concluded emphatically: “That’s not an original.”
Trump, of course, did not agree, but O’Brien dropped the conversation topic and moved on with his interview. He thought that he had heard the last of the Renoir conversation. But the next day, when they boarded the plane to head back to New York City, Trump again pointed to the painting, and as if the conversation had never happened, he pointed to the fake and proclaimed, “You know, that’s an original Renoir.” O’Brien chose not to engage, and dropped the conversation.
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/donald-trumps-fake-renoir
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This one got by me in the morass of all the other crap that's been unearthed about his psychopathy. So pathetic.
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many people have told him that
he knows more than artists
he knows more than museum curators
he even knew Renoir!!!!!!
