Minneapolis Institute of Arts to Return Nazi ‘Loot’
From yesterday’s Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
After 10 years of detective work, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts has concluded that a $2.8 million painting it has owned for decades was stolen by the Nazis. The museum has returned the 1911 painting, Fernand Leger’s “Smoke Over Rooftops,” to the French heirs of a Jewish art collector who died in 1948.
“Having researched this to the end of the road, we decided we had to return the painting; it was the right thing to do,” said Art Institute Director Kaywin Feldman.
Tags: nazi art theft, Repatriation, stolen art
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