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Donald Trump Bragged About the Renoir on His Private Jet. Experts Say Its a Fake.
Watching Donald Trump being interviewed on 60 Minutes shortly after Election Day 2016, eagle-eyed art lovers might have noticed what looked like a painting by French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir hanging on a wall behind the president-elect. The especially astute might have noticed that it looked suspiciously familiar.
New York Times business reporter Timothy O’Brien had seen the painting before, on Trump’s personal jet, back when the president was still a private citizen. When Trump told O’Brien that it was the genuine article, O’Brien declared, “Donald, it’s not. 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. That’s not an original.” O’Brien, who recalled the meeting in an interview with Vanity Fair‘s Hive podcast, also remembers that the day after that exchange. He says Trump pointed out the painting again, as though the conversation had never happened. (A representative for the Art Institue of Chicago confirmed that Two Sisters is part of the museum’s collection but declined to comment further.)
Two art historians were willing to comment on the painting. While neither spoke to President Trump’s assertions, their observations leave little doubt about the painting’s authenticity.
Richard Brettell is chair of aesthetic studies at the University of Texas in Dallas, a Yale University Ph.D., director of the Dallas Museum of Art, and author of several books on Impressionism. His verdict? It’s a fake. He writes in an email:
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https://news.artnet.com/art-world/donald-trump-fake-renoir-1117814
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As real as Trump's Time magazine cover.
I think his dad. for whatever reason, must have taken little donnie by the ankles and dropped him head first onto a concrete floor, over and over he drops him.
This cretin isn't right
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He knows that chances are the people who see these things will not know they are fake and most will be too polite to say anything. That is why he has gotten away all these years with the grandiose images of his lifestyle. Betcha you could go through his penthouse and see one fake item after another. Starting with that “gold plated toilet” he supposedly has. Krylon sells gold spray paint at Wal-Mart for $3.72 a can that gives a shiny impression of real gold. Try scratching your finger on tRump’s throne and see what flakes off.
P.S. It is also a window into his mind of what he thinks “class” really is. He wouldn’t Know true class if it came up and bit him on the ass.
The thing is, Trump is too stupid and uncultured to know anything about art or have any appreciation for it. The only thing he cares about is the price tag. Any art expert could sell him a fake and take advantage of his ignorance. He never goes to museums so he would have no way of knowing that this painting has been hanging in The Art Institute of Chicago since 1933.
Remember the fake Time magazine covers https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-time-magazine-with-trump-on-the-cover-hangs-in-his-golf-clubs-its-fake/2017/06/27/0adf96de-5850-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html?utm_term=.c707318553a3
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The real Time cover, left, and the fake Donald Trump cover. (Left: Time. Right: Angel Valentin for The Washington Post)
