NAZI LOOTED RENOIR PAINTING IS RETURNED, AND METROPOLITAN MUSEUM ACQUIRES JUAN GRIS PAINTING

Plus, an 8th-century Sican gold funeral mask is returned to Peru, and a Jack B. Yeats painting sells at auction.

Deena ElGenaidi

Pierre Auguste Renoir, “Deux Femmes Dans Un Jardin (Two Women in a Garden)” (1919) (image courtesy the Museum of Jewish Heritage)

A Pierre Auguste Renoir painting “Deux Femmes Dans Un Jardin (Two Women in a Garden)” (1919), looted by Nazis during World War II, has been returned to its legal owner. The painting belonged to Alfred Weinberger, an art collector in prewar Paris. Nazis stole the work from a bank vault in Paris in 1941. The painting appeared again in an art sale in Johannesburg in 1975, again in London in 1977, and again in Zurich in 1999 before finally resurfacing at Christie’s in New York in 2013, where it was put up for auction. At the time, the painting was said to be worth between $150,000 and $200,000. In a ceremony at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on Wednesday, the painting was returned to Weinberger’s granddaughter and last remaining heir, Sylvie Sulitzer. The painting will be on display at the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s gallery, A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, until September 16…………..

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