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Poppy Field near Vétheuil

painting by Claude Monet, 1880

  • Poppy Field near Vetheuil

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Les Coquelicots près de Vétheuil (French)
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Es war 1941 von Emil Bührle gekauft worden. Die Erben von Max Emden lassen abklären, ob es sich um Raubkunst handelt. Die Bührle-Sammlung spricht von einer "korrekten Abwicklung". (German)
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Le Chilien Juan Carlos Emden se bat depuis des années pour faire reconnaître les droits de sa famille sur un tableau vendu selon lui dans l’urgence et bien en dessous de son prix par son père, un juif contraint de fuir le nazisme et qui s’était réfugié en Amérique du Sud. (French)
Monet’s 1880 “Poppy Field Near Vétheuil” is another contested work. Bührle bought it in 1941 at a Swiss gallery for less than half its market value, according to a 2012 report by the historian Thomas Buomberger. It had been offered for sale by Hans Erich Emden, the son of a German Jewish department-store mogul whose assets in Germany were expropriated by the Nazis after he moved to Switzerland.The foundation rejected a claim from Emden’s heirs, arguing that the sale was not a result of Nazi persecution. Gloor said that cases in which German Jews sold assets while exiled in Switzerland should not necessarily be considered sales under duress. (English)
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Claude Monet (French)
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