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Christie's researchers were prompted to investigate the provenance of Merry Company because it was known to have been sold at the Gerhard Harms auction house in Berlin in 1937. Sales at Harms in prewar and war years are notorious among Holocaust historians because they were often so-called "Jew auctions" - that is, sales of items seized from the houses of Jews fleeing persecution or sold under duress. German law has acknowledged since 1989 that works in such auctions should be regarded as looted. (English)