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1913
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After her death in 1940, the painting was inherited by her son Michael Ventris, who died in 1956. No further information is available on how the painting went from Galerie Berggruen in Paris to Galerie Nathan in Zürich. In 1964, Werner Schmalenbach bought the painting from Galerie Nathan on behalf of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen for 450,000 Deutschmarks. (English)
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Germany’s Kunstsammlung NRW has called on the panel of experts from the so-called Limbach Commission to adjudicate a long-standing restitution dispute between the museum and the heirs of the Jewish art dealer Alfred Flechtheim, Die Welt reports. The commission’s rulings are officially non-binding, but can hold significant sway in deciding restitution cases.The museum claims that after years of provenance research it has not found evidence that proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Juan Gris’s Guitar and Ink Bottle on a Table (1913) belonged to Flechtheim. The museum’s research suggests that the disputed painting may have been on consignment or jointly owned by several gallerists when it was sold to a London collector in 1934. The heirs believe the sale was conducted under the threat of Nazi persecution. (English)
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