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Germany: Texas museum stands by ownership of disputed art (English)
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8 February 2019
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A lawyer for the heirs, Christoph Partsch, said last week that the painting was confiscated by the Nazis in 1940. He said his clients had found out only now about the existence of the missing painting and were demanding its return. He said the family lives in Europe, but didn’t want to further identify them.The Houston museum said the painting was restituted in 1949 to Natasha Flieglers, a Paris-based collector then living in New York, and that she consigned it to the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York for sale in 1953.The following year, it said, the painting was sold by the gallery to Oveta Culp Hobby, who donated it to the museum in 1958. It said “this is contrary to the claimants’ assertions that the painting was smuggled out of France by Mrs. Hobby. (English)
25 July 2021