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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Graig Graziosi

NYC’s Met is sued by heirs of Jewish family claiming museum’s Van Gogh painting was looted by Nazis

The heirs of a Jewish family are suing the Metropolitan Museum of Art, claiming a Vincent van Gogh oil painting it sold was looted from their relatives by the Nazis.

The lawsuit claims that Hedwig and Frederick Stern bought the painting, titled Olive Picking, in 1935. The same year, the couple was forced to flee their home in Munich, and were never reunited with the painting.

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