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Was Jeffrey Epstein's Copy of a Modernist Painting Sold on eBay?
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Was Jeffrey Epstein's Copy of a Modernist Painting Sold on eBay?

ARTnews.com·Alex Greenberger·24 days ago
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An eBay seller claimed to have Jeffrey Epstein ‘s reproduction of a painting by Kees van Dongen , a Dutch painter who became a part of the Fauvist movement in France during the early 20th century. The work in question, it should be noted, was not a bona fide van Dongen. It was a print based on a ca. 1905 painting called Femme Fatale , which sold at Christie’s in 2004 for $5.94 million. At the time, Christie’s touted the work for demonstrating “in uncompromising fashion the artist’s penchant for exploiting shock value, here taken to an unprecedented extreme.” The painting depicts a green-faced woman with one breast spilling out from her shirt. Related Articles Epstein owned a giclée print of the van Dongen painting and hung it above his desk in his Upper East Side townhouse. And while this may not be a true van Dongen, Epstein appears to have held a fascination with the artist.…

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