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Bitter Bidders
Cruise passengers unhappy with artwork they purchased at onboard auctions are frustrated that cruise lines aren’t doing more to help them.
By Johanna Jainchill

In 2004, while onboard a Princess ship, Norma Mc-Clellan, an outside agent with Sunrise Travel in California, paid $212 for a print signed by a Polish artist, Magdalena Greene.

It was the second time she had purchased art in an auction onboard a cruise ship.

The paperwork she was given authenticating the piece, titled “To the Garden I,” identified the artist as Magdalena Greene. But sometime later, while looking around on art websites back home, McClellan was shocked to see the same exact piece being sold as the work of an artist named Mary Dulon.

McClellan said she contacted Princess, where a spokesman referred her to Global Fine Arts, the company that operates auctions aboard Princess’ cruises. ...

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