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Five years ago, a claim for the Monet was initiated by French resident Henry Newman 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 Charles Wrightsman . In 1994 Mrs. Wrightsman presented the painting to the Metropolitan. (English)