Court of Appeals for the First Circuit June 20, 1988, 87-1960, 87-1961 (Dorothy Ann Wilson, Etc. v. Hammer Holdings, Inc., Dorothy Ann Wilson v. Hammer Holdings, Inc.)

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

In 1961, appellant Dorothy Wilson and her late husband, John, paid more than $11,000 to the Hammer Galleries for a painting that was expressly guaranteed to be an original work of art by Edouard Vuillard. In 1984, an expert deemed the painting a fake.