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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"art",<br>"author":"stormie",<br>"permlink":"picasso-de037cdfd58d4",<br>"title":"Picasso",<br>"body":"The actor,<br> painted in 1904-1905 by Pablo Picasso during his pink period,<br> belonged to Paul Leffmann,<br> a German Jewish industrialist who was forced,<br> according to his descendants,<br> to give him at a low price to flee fascist Italy after to have left Nazi Germany.\n\nJudge Loretta Preska found that the plaintiffs could not establish the forced nature of the sale.\n\nThe Leffmann family fled Germany to Italy in 1937. A year later,<br> the businessman sold the Picasso to two art dealers for $ 12,<br>000 to finance his visit to Switzerland .\n\nNo comments could be obtained from the plaintiffs' lawyer. The management of the Met also refrained from any reaction.\n\nThe Met took possession of this work as part of a donation in 1952 and only recognized in 2011 that it had a time belonged to Leffmann. The museum estimates that Leffmann sold it at a fair price to Paul Rosenberg and Hugo Perls in 1938. The painting eventually passed into the hands of Thelma Chrysler Foy,<br> heir to the founder of car manufacturer Chrysler,<br> who offered it at the Met in 1952.\n\nIn her judgment,<br> Judge Preska states that the 1938 transaction was \"conducted between private individuals,<br> not by order of the fascist or Nazi governments. Even if the Leffmann were under economic pressure in these undeniably horrible circumstances,<br> the judge said,<br> this pressure,<br> which was not exercised by the counterparties in this transaction,<br> is insufficient to prove the forced nature of this sale. \"\n\nThe descendants of Leffmann claimed either the restitution of the work or a compensation of the order of 100 million dollars. ![image (https:\/\/img.esteem.ws\/eszefen1ze.jpg)",<br>"json_metadata":" \"links\":[ ,<br>\"image\":[\"https:\/\/img.esteem.ws\/eszefen1ze.jpg\" ,<br>\"tags\":[\"art\" ,<br>\"app\":\"esteem\/1.5.1\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown+html\",<br>\"community\":\"esteem\" " |
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