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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is selling a Monet, following settlement of a World War II claim on the painting. Sotheby's is to auction "Le Repos Dans Le Jardin Argenteuil" in New York on May 8, with an estimate of $3.5 million to $4.5 million. Five years ago, a claim for the Monet was initiated by French resident Henry Newman, who said that it had been deposited in a Berlin bank vault by his family in the early 1940s and was stolen during the Soviet occupation in 1945. A few years later the Monet surfaced in New York where, in 1952, the A & R Ball Gallery sold it in good faith to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman. In 1994 Mrs. Wrightsman presented the painting to the Metropolitan. (English)
Forbes.com: Met To Sell Monet (English)
26 March 2003
7 October 2024
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Besides being Nazi war plunder, "Le Repos Dans Le Jardin Argenteuil" also featured in a more recent scandal that rocked the art world in 2001 when crooked art dealer Michel Cohen Michel Cohen tried to sell it to two different buyers. Cohen, claiming he was acting on behalf of the Met, contacted European art dealer Jean-François Gobbi Jean-François Gobbi as well as Manhattan dealer Bill Beadelston Bill Beadelston to each put off millions of dollars in order to split the profit. Cohen disappeared in January 2001, having scammed an estimated $50 million to $100 million from many of the leading figures in the art world. (English)
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Forbes.com: Met To Sell Monet (English)
26 March 2003
7 October 2024
Five years ago, a claim for the Monet was initiated by French resident Henry Newman, who said that it had been deposited in a Berlin bank vault by his family in the early 1940s and was stolen during the Soviet occupation in 1945. A few years later the Monet surfaced in New York where, in 1952, the A & R Ball Gallery sold it in good faith to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman. In 1994 Mrs. Wrightsman presented the painting to the Metropolitan. (English)
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Forbes.com: Met To Sell Monet (English)
26 March 2003
7 October 2024
Five years ago, a claim for the Monet was initiated by French resident Henry Newman, who said that it had been deposited in a Berlin bank vault by his family in the early 1940s and was stolen during the Soviet occupation in 1945. A few years later the Monet surfaced in New York where, in 1952, the A & R Ball Gallery sold it in good faith to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman. In 1994 Mrs. Wrightsman presented the painting to the Metropolitan. (English)
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81 centimetre
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Forbes.com: Met To Sell Monet (English)
26 March 2003
7 October 2024
Besides being Nazi war plunder, "Le Repos Dans Le Jardin Argenteuil" also featured in a more recent scandal that rocked the art world in 2001 when crooked art dealer Michel Cohen tried to sell it to two different buyers. (English)