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#ArtnetNews: Last week, Thomas Doyle, a Connecticut man, pled guilty to one count of wire fraud surrounding the sale of a work by French painter Gustave Courbet to Bruce Springsteen‘s business manager. Last year, the 68-year-old Doyle facilitated the sale of 'Mother and Child on a Hammock' (1844) via New York-based Jill Newhouse Gallery, with permission from its owner, London-based art dealer Patrick Matthiesen. The gallery sold the painting to art collector and Springsteen manager Jon Landau. Matthiesen never saw any money from the deal. Read more: https://bit.ly/3QOiTcA Article by Vittoria Benzine __________ Pictured: Gustave Courbet, Mother and Child on a Hammock (1844) Photo: courtesy of Patrick Matthiesen