{"id":4483,"date":"2017-10-19T17:41:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T00:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=4483"},"modified":"2017-10-19T17:41:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T00:41:53","slug":"chicago-museum-says-trumps-renoir-painting-is-not-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=4483","title":{"rendered":"Chicago museum says: Trump’s Renoir painting is not real"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image caption<\/span>Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Two Sisters (On The Terrace)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A US museum says an Impressionist painting which President Donald Trump reportedly claims to own is a fake.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview, Trump biographer Tim O’Brien said he was once told by the future president that his artwork was an original.<\/p>\n

But the Chicago Institute of Art says the real painting, Two Sisters (On The Terrace) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, has hung in its gallery for 80 years.<\/p>\n

A museum spokesperson said it is “satisfied that our version is real”.<\/p>\n

The painting was gifted to the institute in 1933, spokeswoman Amanda Hicks told the Chicago Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The donor acquired it for $100,000 (\u00a3760,000) from an art dealer who bought it directly from the French Impressionist painter in 1881, she added.<\/p>\n

But O’Brien said during a recent interview with Vanity Fair’s Hive podcast that Mr Trump has repeatedly claimed to him that his version of the painting was authentic.<\/p>\n

During a flight on Mr Trump’s private jet while he was writing his 2005 book, TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald, O’Brien said he spotted the painting and asked about it.<\/p>\n

“You know, that’s an original Renoir,” the author said Mr Trump had told him, adding that the property tycoon repeated the claim the following day.<\/p>\n

“Donald, it’s not,” he recalled telling Trump. “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.<\/p>\n

“That’s not an original.”<\/p>\n

The artwork was later apparently moved to Trump Tower, the author said, saying it was visible in the background of a CBS 60 Minutes interview that Mr Trump gave shortly after his election.<\/p>\n

“I’m sure he’s still telling people who come into the apartment, ‘It’s an original, it’s an original,'” O’Brien said on the podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump sued O’Brien for $5bn because the author wrote in TrumpNation that rather than being a billionaire, his net worth was actually as low as $150m.<\/p>\n

The defamation lawsuit was dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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