(Q60432996)
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1914
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La peinture, volée avec la collection Kann, se retrouve en 1940 au Jeu de paume, centre de triage des oeuvres pillées. En 1941, elle passe dans les mains du marchand allemand Gustav Rochlitz, qui collabore avec les services allemands. Elle sera ensuite acquise par le marchand parisien Paul Petrides, le galeriste suisse Marcel Fleischmann, le collectionneur André Lefèvre et le galeriste parisien Heinz Berggruen. Ce dernier prête l'oeuvre au Mnam en 1976, et la lui revend en 1981 9 millions de francs (French)
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A Cubist masterpiece by Georges Braque currently hanging in the Georges Pompidou Center may have been stolen from a wealthy Parisian Jew during World War II, a newspaper reported Monday.The respected daily Le Monde said ``Le Joueur de Guitare,″ (The Guitar Player), one of the Center’s most prized possessions, was plundered during the German occupation. (English)
The heirs of a prominent Jewish art collector are seeking to recover a Cubist masterpiece that was plundered by the Nazis and is now hanging in a major art museum in Paris. The 1914 painting by Georges Braque, “The Guitar Player,” was looted by the Nazis in 1940, along with dozens of others, from the mansion of Alphonse Kann in the Paris suburb of Saint German en Laye. (English)
72.5 centimetre
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130 centimetre
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