Met museum sued by family over allegedly Nazi-looted Van Gogh painting

A guest views Vincent van Gogh’s Women Picking Olives (1889, middle), another painting from his olive trees series, at the Met in New York. Photograph: Bjanka Kadic/Alamy

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is being sued by the heirs of a Jewish couple over a Vincent van Gogh oil painting they say was looted by the Nazis.

The suit alleges the couple, Hedwig and Frederick Stern, bought the painting, Olive Picking, in 1935, the year before they were forced to flee their home in Munich.